Word: cayley
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...eight hundredth anniversary the University of Bologna conferred degrees on Gladstone, Spencer, Huxley, Lowell, Renan, Jebb, Max Muller, David Dudley Field, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Profs. Cayley, Adams, Agassiz, and many others...
...recent professor in an American college is thus honored by the London Spectator. "Professor Sylvester is selected to succeed the late Professor Henry Smith as Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford. Prof. Sylvester is-with perhaps some question as to Professor Cayley-the most brilliant and original mathematician of his time. Nor has the fertility of his genius, it is said, diminished with age, though he is believed to be already seventy. He leaves the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, where his genius has been greatly valued and born large fruit, at Christmas, and will, we suppose, assume...