Talk:Arthur Cayley

Eponymous contributions
Is it named for Arthur Cayley? If so should we put it in Arthur_Cayley? Tosha

I'd assume Cayley graphs are named for Arthur Cayley. Does anyone know for sure ( = have a reference)? --Dbenbenn 05:08, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

'''Good guy! my uncle used to surf with him back in the 19th century! tbh tho, don't really like matrices. :/ Don't know what he was going for there''' — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jac8pussay (talk • contribs) 02:34, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Where did this come from?
I am curious where the text for this article comes from. I would guess the bulk of it was not written by a Wikipedian; the style seems a bit dated. It would be nice to have sources for some of these quotes. Quasicharacter 07:22, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

On a related note, the mystery author (whom I shall name M.A.) doesn't seem to have a particularly NPOV. For instance, M.A. seems to have a grudge against "evolution philosophers". Quasicharacter 07:30, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cayley genealogy: www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/cc4aq/cayley2.htm shows that merchant Henry Cayley, father of mathematician Arthur Cayley, is NOT brother to aeronautical pioneer and Wikipedia subject Sir George Cayley (1773-1857).


 * It came from a book, verbatim. This is a Project Gutenberg PDF file of Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the 19th Century, by Alexander MacFarlane, written in 1915.  It might be public domain by now, but should at least be credited.  Some bits need reworking, too; there's first person in there, which is what started me searching.  Good call about the "dated" style. -GTBacchus(talk) 21:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Did he actually pronounce his surname, as both my professor and his assistant do? -- Army1987 – Deeds, not words. 15:53, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You have just volunteered to do some research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.147.175.160 (talk) 15:01, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

I don't like this article
This Article focuses too much on the circumstances of his life and not enough on summarizing his work. Granted, there are links to discussions of various aspects of his work, but a real overview is missing.

another article: http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/periodictable/html/C.html  similarly vague about what he did.

Here's a good article

http://www.siam.org/meetings/la09/talks/higham.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skysong263 (talk • contribs) 06:34, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

note: he invented notation, addition, multiplication, inversion, powering, zero & identity matrices. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skysong263 (talk • contribs) 06:36, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 08:20, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Age at death
The summary has him dying at age 73; the Collected Papers section(!) has him dying at 74. Someone who knows arithmetic could probably decide which of these is true. 192.87.1.200 (talk) 11:25, 12 June 2024 (UTC)


 * He was born in Aug 1821. His 74th birthday would have been in Aug of 1821 + 74 = 1895.  Since he died a few months before his birthday, in Feb 1895, he was 73 at the time of his death.  Feel free to fix the Collected Papers section. PatrickR2 (talk) 21:26, 12 June 2024 (UTC)