Table of Contents

Acknowldgments
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

About the Author

Tony Crilly is a Reader in mathematical sciences at Middlesex University.

Reviews

The real subject of Crilly's monumental biography is the surrounding galaxy of British mathematicians and milieu in which they operated. Nature Fluid, readable style... Highly recommended. Choice This well-written biography... is full of shrewd observation and careful analysis. -- Jeremy Gray MAA Online 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 [ Arthur Cayley] gives a broad picture of the developments in mathematics and society over the nineteenth century. -- Thomas Banchoff Victorian Studies