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| | Arthur Cayley - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The verses refer to the subjects investigated in several of Cayley's most elaborate memoirs; such as, Chapters on the Analytical Geometry of n dimensions; On the theory of Determinants; Memoir on the theory of Matrices; Memoirs on skew surfaces, otherwise Scrolls; On the delineation of a Cubic Scroll, etc. |
 | | Should a fourth edition of his Elementary Treatise be called for i, j, k will disappear from it, excepting in Cayley's chapter, should it be retained. |
 | | Through the whole compass of each of his tremendous volumes one can find traces of his desire to avoid even an allusion to i, j, k, and along with them, his sorrowful conviction that, should he do so, he would be left without a single reader." |
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