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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the symmetric functions of the roots of certain systems of two equations'.

Received by the Royal Society on 18 December 1856. Read 8 January 1857.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 8, 1857.

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PT/59/3
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1856
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Ink on paper
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17 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Paper, 'On the symmetric functions of the roots of certain systems of two equations' by A [Arthur] Cayley, 1856, PT/59/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_59_3/paper-on-the-symmetric-functions-of-the-roots-of-certain-systems-of-two-equations-by-a-arthur-cayley, accessed on 14 June 2026

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