Definition:Form/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Form
The study of forms was developed by Arthur Cayley and James Joseph Sylvester in the mid-$19$th century.
They originally called them quantics.
In particular, they studied invariants of forms.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): form
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): form