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Arthur Cayley

Date of Birth 16-August-1821
Place of Birth Richmond, London
(London, Surrey, England, United Kingdom, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Mathematician
Arthur Cayley F.R.S. was a British mathematician. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics. As a child, Cayley enjoyed solving complex maths problems for amusement. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he excelled in Greek, French, German, and Italian, as well as mathematics. He worked as a lawyer for 14 years. He postulated the Cayley–Hamilton theorem—that every square matrix is a root of its own characteristic polynomial, and verified it for matrices of order 2 and 3. He was the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way—as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws. Formerly, when mathematicians spoke of "groups", they had meant permutation groups.

Awards by Arthur Cayley

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1882


Copley Medal
(For his numerous profound and comprehensive researches in pure mathematics.)