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Unpublished paper, 'On certain properties of prime numbers' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock

Reference number: AP/29/13

Date: February 1847

Description

Pollock references Wilson's theorem and Gauss's theorem regarding prime numbers, and offers his corrections to Gauss's theorem.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Mathematics

Received 11 February 1847.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On certain properties of prime numbers'.

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AP/29/13
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February 1847
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Ink and graphite on paper
Page extent
24 pages
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Manuscript

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Jonathan Frederick Pollock

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Jonathan Frederick Pollock, Unpublished paper, 'On certain properties of prime numbers' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock, February 1847, AP/29/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_29_13/unpublished-paper-on-certain-properties-of-prime-numbers-by-jonathan-frederick-pollock, accessed on 07 December 2024

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