Hermann Weyl wrote in a 1939 article on invariant theory: "The Theory of Invariants came into existence about the middle of the nineteenth century somewhat like Minerva: a grown-up virgin, mailed in the shining armor of algebra, she sprang forth from Cayley's Jovian head. Her Athens over which she ruled and which she served as a tutelary and beneficent goddess was projective geometry."
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