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Book SynopsisComprehensive and elegantly composed, this biography makes clear the scope of Arthur Cayley's prodigious achievements, firmly enshrining him as the Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age.
Trade ReviewThe real subject of Crilly's monumental biography is the surrounding galaxy of British mathematicians and milieu in which they operated. Nature 2006 Fluid, readable style... Highly recommended. Choice 2006 This well-written biography... is full of shrewd observation and careful analysis. -- Jeremy Gray MAA Online 2006 First full-length account of Cayley's life... Anyone interested in the emerging role of the research mathematician in England will find Crilly's book particularly rewarding. American Scientist 2006 Crilly's book is a beautifully written account of Cayley's life and of British mathematics in the 19th century. -- David Singerman London Mathematical Society Newsletter 2007 I highly recommend Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age as a valuable addition to one's personal or institutional library. There is everything to enjoy about this book: the writing, the content, the essential tribute to Cayley's life and contributions. -- Kathleen M. Clark Convergence 2007 The reader of Crilly's book will come away with an appreciation of the quality and breadth of Cayley's mathematical writings. -- Francine F. Abeles Isis 2007 A well-written and thorough account of its subject... a wealth of useful and well-researched information that is difficult to find elsewhere. -- Robin Wilson Historia Mathematica 2006 Recommended to those who are not specialists in mathematics and are interested in historico-cultural or social science aspects... An instructive book accessible to the reader. -- Karl-Neinz Schlote Mathematical Reviews 2008 A scholarly work of the highest quality. It should be in every university library, and I recommend it to all who wish to delve deeply into the life of Arthur Cayley. -- Henry E. Heatherly Mathematical Intelligencer 2008 [ Arthur Cayley] gives a broad picture of the developments in mathematics and society over the nineteenth century. -- Thomas Banchoff Victorian Studies 2009
Table of ContentsAcknowldgments
Introduction
Chronology
Genealogy
Part I. Growing Up, 1821-1843
1. Early Years
2. A Cambridge Prodigy
3. Coming of Age
Part II. New Vistas, 1844-1849
4. A Mathematical Medly
5. From a Fenland Base
6. The Pupil Barrister
Part III. A Rising Star, 1850-1962
7. Barrister-at-Law
8. A Grand Design
9. Without Portfolio
10. The Road to Academe
Part IV. The High Plateau, 1863-1882
11. The Mathematician Laureate
12. Years of Challenge
13. A Representative Man
14. March On with Step Sublime
Part V. Make One Music as Before, 1882-1895
15. "A Tract of Beautiful Coutry"
16. The Old Man of mathematics
17. Last Years
Appendix A
Appendix B
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
