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Paper, 'On Fermat's theorem of the polygonal numbers' by Sir [Jonathan] Frederick Pollock

Reference number: PT/62/2

Date: 25 April 1861

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On Fermat's theorem of the polygonal numbers'.

Received by the Royal Society on 25 April 1861. Read 2 May 1861.

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 10, 1860.

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PT/62/2
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25 April 1861
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Ink on paper
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33 pages
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Manuscript

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Jonathan Frederick Pollock

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Jonathan Frederick Pollock, Paper, 'On Fermat's theorem of the polygonal numbers' by Sir [Jonathan] Frederick Pollock, 25 April 1861, PT/62/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_62_2/paper-on-fermats-theorem-of-the-polygonal-numbers-by-sir-jonathan-frederick-pollock, accessed on 09 December 2023

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