In algebraic geometry, the Cayleyan is a variety associated to a hypersurface by Arthur Cayley (1844), who named it the pippian in (Cayley 1857) and also called it the Steiner–Hessian.

See also

• Quippian

References

• Cayley, Arthur (1844), "Mémoire sur les courbes du troisième ordre", Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, 9: 285–293, Collected Papers, I, 183–189
• Cayley, Arthur (1857), "A Memoir on Curves of the Third Order", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, The Royal Society, 147: 415–446, doi:10.1098/rstl.1857.0021, ISSN 0080-4614, JSTOR 108626
• Dolgachev, Igor V. (2012), Classical Algebraic Geometry: a modern view (PDF), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-01765-8, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-31, retrieved 2012-04-06