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Unpublished letter, regarding mathematical paper by John Walsh from Benjamin Gompertz to Davies Gilbert

Reference number: AP/10/21

Date: 25 March 1830

Description

Gompertz critiques John Walsh's paper (AP/10/16), writing that Walsh does not sufficiently express the way that lengths, surfaces, and solids are to be bounded to facilitate his arguments. Includes a diagram in the text.

Subject: Mathematics

Written by Gompertz at the Alliance Office on Bartholomew Lane [London].

Reference number
AP/10/21
Earliest possible date
25 March 1830
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Benjamin Gompertz

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Benjamin Gompertz, Unpublished letter, regarding mathematical paper by John Walsh from Benjamin Gompertz to Davies Gilbert, 25 March 1830, AP/10/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_10_21/unpublished-letter-regarding-mathematical-paper-by-john-walsh-from-benjamin-gompertz-to-davies-gilbert, accessed on 13 October 2024

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