ARTHUR CAYLEY

BORN ON: AUG.18 1821,IN RICHMOND,LONDON, UK

CONTRIBUTIONS TO MATH

• He was the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way
• He postulated the Cayley–Hamilton theorem

HE WAS.....

• A lawyer.
• Also a professor at Cambridge University

FACTS ABOUT HIM

• In 1883 was President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
• Cambridge University Press requested him to prepare his mathematical papers for publication
• In 1872 he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College
• Published a Treatise on Elliptic Functions, which was his only book.

DIED