Arthur Cayley
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Arthur Cayley(Q159430), a British mathematician that is a contemporary of Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton(Q11887). Cayley has been credited for inventing matrix algebra.
Both Cayley and Hamilton had been inspired by Luca Pacioli's Double Entry Bookkeeping, where Cayley wrote a short pamphlet, named: "Principle of Double Entry Bookkepping"[1], and showed that balancing and keeping data consistent and honest being a mathematically interesting idea.
Fitzgerald's paper[2] on Quantum Information and Accounting Information: A Revolutionary Trend and the World of Topology explicitly referred to Cayley's interest in double entry bookkeeping and its connection to matrix algebra.
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- ↑ Arthur Cayley, The Principles of Book-keeping by Double Entry, Cambridge University Press, First Published in 1894, Digitized by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/principlesofbook00caylrich, last accessed: June 2, 2021
- ↑ Demski, Joel; Fitzgerald, S.; Ijiri, Yuji; Ijiri, Yumi; Lin, Haijin (August 2006). "Quantum Information and Accounting Information: A Revolutionary Trend and the World of Topology" (PDF). local page.