A memoir on the quintic equation / by Prof. Cayley.

Bibliography

By Prof. Steven H. Weintraub
Dept. of Mathematics
Lehigh University

Cayley Publications

Cayley, Arthur, "Inaugural Address", Nature 28 (20 September 1883), 491-496.
[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v28/n725/pdf/028491a0.pdf - Lehigh Only]
Cayley's inaugural address upon his election as President of the British Society for the Advancement of Science.

Biography - Cayley

Crilly, A. J., "Cayley, Arthur (1821–1895)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4967 - Lehigh Only]

Crilly, A. J., Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 2006.

Forsyth, A. R., "Arthur Cayley", Proc. Royal Soc. London 58 (1895), i-xliii.
[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0370-1662(1895)58 2.0.CO;2-T - Lehigh Only]
This obituary was also reprinted in Vol 8 of Cayley's Collected Papers, pp. ix-xliv.

Glaisher, J. W. L., "Obituary Notices - Fellows: Cayley, Arthur", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 56, 191-197.
[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1896MNRAS..56..191.]

Macfarlane, A., Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1916.
[http://www.archive.org/details/lecturesontenbri00macfuoft]
Dr. Macfarlane gave a series of lectures at Lehigh in 1901-1904, including one on Cayley, reproduced in this book.

Noether, M., "Arthur Cayley", Math. Ann. 46 (1895), 462-480.
[http://www.springerlink.com/content/u126884725227q4j/ - Lehigh Only]
This obituary, in German, concentrates on Cayley's mathematical work.

O'Connor, John J. and Robertson, Edmund F., "Arthur Cayley", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.
[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cayley.html]

Salmon, George, "Science Worthy's - Arthur Cayley", Nature 28 (20 September 1883), 481-485.
[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v28/n725/pdf/028481a0.pdf - Lehigh Only]

Biography - Harley

Bell, H. T. M., "Harley, Robert (1828–1910)", rev. Maria Panteki, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33715 - Lehigh Only]
Note that this article states incorrectly that Harley first came to Cayley's attention as a result of Cayley reading Harley's published work in 1860.

MacMahon, P. A., "Robert Harley, 1828-1910" Proc. Royal Society of London, Series A, 91, (1915), i-v.
[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0950-1207(19150901)91:633 2.0.CO;2-X - Lehigh Only]