A memoir on the quintic equation / by Prof. Cayley. [1894 or 1895]

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A memoir on the quintic equation / by Prof. Cayley. [1894 or 1895]

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One of Cayley's last published papers, in 1894, dealt with the quintic: Arthur Cayley, On the sextic resolvent equations of Jacobi and Kronecker, Journal f̈ü̈r die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik, CXIII (1894), 42-49. Moreover, he was preparing a paper, entitled A Report on the Quintic, which was incomplete at his death. This manuscript consists of several drafts of this paper. In one of these drafts, he refers to the paper: On the Sextic Resolvent Equations ...

28 leaves : ill. ; 46 cm.

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Arthur Cayley was one of the preeminent British mathematicians of the 19th century. In 1863 he was appointed the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at Cambridge, a position he held until his death at the age of 73. From the description of A memoir on the quintic equation / by Prof. Cayley. [1894 or 1895] (Lehigh University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 226025432 Epithet: of Gisburgh, county Yorkshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Pe...