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Arthur Cayley

English mathematician1821 to 1895

Wikidata names William Hopkins as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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William Hopkins

Students on Wikidata3

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Andrew Forsyth
born 1858
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Charlotte Scott
born 1858
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H. F. Baker
born 1866

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataWilliam Hopkins
2 steps up
stated by WikidataAdam Sedgwick
3 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Dawsonstated by WikidataThomas Jones
4 steps up
stated by WikidataEdward Waringstated by WikidataThomas Postlethwaite

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 90 people: 90 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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1835 to 1838
King's College School
studied
1838 to 1842
Trinity College
studied
1842 to 1846
Trinity College
worked
1846 to 1849
Lincoln's Inn
studied
1849 to 1863
Lincoln's Inn
worked
1863 to 1895
University of Cambridge
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, lawyer, university teacher, barrister
fields: graph theory, group theory, mathematics
awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, 1852, Copley Medal, 1882, Royal Medal, 1859, De Morgan Medal, 1884, Honorary doctor of the Heidelberg University, honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna, Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford, Officer of the Legion of Honour, 1890, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1866, Honorary doctor of Leiden University, Smith's Prize, 1842
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1852, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1866, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Royal Society of Edinburgh, from 1865, Royal Astronomical Society, from 1857, National Academy of Sciences, from 1883, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1889, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1875
notable works: Cayley's theorem, Cayley–Hamilton theorem, Cayley–Bacharach theorem, Cayley–Dickson construction, Cayley graph, Cayley plane, Cayley table, Cayley transform, Cayleyan, Cayley–Menger determinant, Cayley–Purser algorithm, Cayley's formula, Cayley's nodal cubic surface, Cayley's ruled cubic surface
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stated by WikidataWikipediaArthur Cayley
stated by WikidataWikidataQ159430
stated by WikidataVIAF69046313
stated by WikidataGND116479531
stated by WikidataIdRef034898654
stated by WikidataISNI0000000110692133

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stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project7824

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@misc{academicancestry_Q159430,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Arthur Cayley: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q159430},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Arthur Cayley: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q159430