Cayley
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname from Old French of Norman origin from a place name Cailly in France.
A hamlet in Foothills County, southern Alberta, Canada.
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A celebrated result of nineteenth-century mathematicians Arthur Cayley and George Salmon states that there are exactly 27 straight lines that lie entirely on such a surface.
A convenient mnemonic for remembering the products of unit octonions is given by the diagram at the right, which represents the multiplication table of Cayley and Graves.
A glider designed by Cayley carried out the first true manned, controlled flight in 1853.
About the time of Jacobi's last memoirs, Sylvester (1839) and Cayley began their work.
Arthur Cayley noted that distance between points inside a conic could be defined in terms of logarithm and the projective cross-ratio function.
Arthur Cayley in 1879 in The Newton-Fourier imaginary problem was the first to notice the difficulties in generalizing Newton's method to complex roots of polynomials with degree greater than 2 and complex initial values.