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Unpublished paper, 'On factorial expressions and the summation of algebraic series' by W Tate

Reference number: AP/26/18

Date: 1843

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Tate shares an investigation of some general methods for the summation of algebraic series. He goes on to share a new demonstration of Taylor's theorem.

Marked on front as 'Archives 1 June 1843 S H C [Samuel Hunter Christie]'.

Subject: Mathematics / Algebra

Received 30 March 1843. Communicated by Henry Moseley.

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 factorial expressions, and the summation of algebraic series'.

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AP/26/18
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1843
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Ink on paper
Page extent
24 pages
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Manuscript

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W Tate

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W Tate, Unpublished paper, 'On factorial expressions and the summation of algebraic series' by W Tate, 1843, AP/26/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_26_18/unpublished-paper-on-factorial-expressions-and-the-summation-of-algebraic-series-by-w-tate, accessed on 16 August 2026

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