Cayley plane

In mathematics, the Cayley plane (or octonionic projective plane) P²(O) is a projective plane over the octonions.

The Cayley plane was discovered in 1933 by Ruth Moufang, and is named after Arthur Cayley for his 1845 paper describing the octonions.

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