Unpublished paper, 'On certain formulae for differentation' by Arthur Cayley
Reference number: AP/40/8
Date: 1857
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Cayley writes on his attempts to identify the successive differential coefficients of the general expression {(x + λ) (x + μ) }^(½k)(√x + λ¯ — √x + μ¯)^(2i).
Marked on front as 'Archives'.
Subject: Mathematics / Differential calculus
Received 26 November 1857.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 9 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On certain formulæ for differentiation'.
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- AP/40/8
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- 1857
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- 23 pages
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III. On certain formulæ for differentiation External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1859
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1857.0014
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Archived papers: volume 40, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1857-1858
1857-1858 Reference number: AP/40
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