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Paper, 'On the necessary truth of certain conclusions obtained by means of imaginary quantities' by Robert Woodhouse

Reference number: L&P/11/146

Date: 1800

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On the necessary truth of certain conclusions obtained by means of imaginary quantities'

Read 8 January 1801

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L&P/11/146
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1800
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Ink on paper
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52 pages
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Robert Woodhouse

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Robert Woodhouse, Paper, 'On the necessary truth of certain conclusions obtained by means of imaginary quantities' by Robert Woodhouse, 1800, L&P/11/146, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_11_146/paper-on-the-necessary-truth-of-certain-conclusions-obtained-by-means-of-imaginary-quantities-by-robert-woodhouse, accessed on 14 December 2024

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