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Unpublished paper, 'On the variation of a triple integral' by Richard Abbatt

Reference number: AP/21/12

Date: October 1837

Description

Abbatt uses the calculus of variations to solve a triple integral. Includes annotations in pencil throughout. Marked on back as 'not to be printed'.

Subject: Mathematics / Calculus

Received 20 October 1837. Communicated by Benjamin Gompertz.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the variation of a triple integral'. Attributed to Richard Abbott [sic].

Reference number
AP/21/12
Earliest possible date
October 1837
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
12 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Unpublished paper, 'On the variation of a triple integral' by Richard Abbatt, October 1837, AP/21/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_21_12/unpublished-paper-on-the-variation-of-a-triple-integral-by-richard-abbatt, accessed on 23 April 2025

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