Arthur Cayley letters to Robert Harley, 1859-1863.

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Arthur Cayley letters to Robert Harley, 1859-1863.

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Letters written from London by Cayley to Rev. Robert Harley between 24 September 1859 and 5 February 1863. Many of these letters deal with details of invariant-theoretic calculations that Cayley and Harley performed. Harley's name does not appear in any of these letters and his identity has been deduced from internal evidence.

40 items ; 18 x 22 cm.

Lehigh University Libraries, Lehigh Libraries

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Lehigh University Libraries, Lehigh Libraries

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Harley, Robert, 1828-1910

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Cayley, Arthur, 1821-1895

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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...