Mathematicians Of The Day

14th January



On this day in 1858, Arthur Cayley's A Memoir on the Theory of Matrices was read at the Royal Society. Cayley established rules of notation and operations for these newly emerging ideas in mathematics. This paper also contained the first formal statement of what we now call the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem.

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Quotation of the day

From George Berkeley
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).