"More difficult than determining the elementary properties of invariants is developing a systematic procedure to produce invariants. In December 1851, Cayley wrote Sylvester that, in general, invariants satisfied two partial differential equations, without indicating a derivation of the equations."

In *Elliptic and Modular Functions from Gauss to Dedekind to Hecke* by Ranjan Roy.

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