The rise of Cayley's invariant theory (1841--1862) (Q1094399)

The author has researched the unpublished Cayley-Boole and Cayley- Sylvester correspondence as well as Cayley's published papers to produce a detailed description and analysis of the development of invariant theory by Cayley. Where Boole had studied homogeneous polynomials, Cayley used multilinear forms. The author says that Cayley at first based invariant theory on partial differential equations, then later on the hyperdeterminant derivative, and still later returned to partial differential equations.