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Paper, 'On circulating functions and on the integration of a class of equations of finite differences into which they enter as coefficients' by John F W [Frederick William] Herschel

Reference number: PT/12/9

Date: 01 November 1817

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On circulating functions, and on the integration of a class of equations of finite differences into which they enter as coefficients'.

Written by Herschel in Slough. Read 19 February 1818.

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PT/12/9
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01 November 1817
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Ink on paper
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21 pages
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Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Paper, 'On circulating functions and on the integration of a class of equations of finite differences into which they enter as coefficients' by John F W [Frederick William] Herschel, 01 November 1817, PT/12/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_12_9/paper-on-circulating-functions-and-on-the-integration-of-a-class-of-equations-of-finite-differences-into-which-they-enter-as-coefficients-by-john-f-w-frederick-william-herschel, accessed on 17 December 2025

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