Birthdate: August 16, 1821
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Richmond, Surrey, UK
Died: January 26, 1895
Arthur Cayley was a notable British mathematician renowned for his advancements in algebra and group theory. He was instrumental in shaping the modern British school of pure mathematics and held a professorship at Trinity College, Cambridge for more than thirty years. One of his significant contributions was formulating the Cayley-Hamilton theorem, which states that every square matrix is a solution to its characteristic polynomial. Cayley also introduced the concept of abstract groups and made important progress in combinatorics, leading to the naming of several mathematical ideas and theorems in his honor.
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