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Born August 16, 1821 • Richmond upon Thames • England
Died January 26, 1895 (aged 73) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1882)
Subjects Of Study invariant • matrix • multidimensional space

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Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
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