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Paper, 'Invention of a general method for determining the sum of every 2nd 3rd 4th or 5th term of a series taken in order, the sum of the whole series being known' by Thomas Simpson

Reference number: L&P/3/336

Date: 1757

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'The invention of a general method for determining the sum of every 2d, 3d, 4th, or 5th, &c. term of a series, taken in order; the sum of the whole series being known'

Read 16 November 1758

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Thomas Simpson, Paper, 'Invention of a general method for determining the sum of every 2nd 3rd 4th or 5th term of a series taken in order, the sum of the whole series being known' by Thomas Simpson, 1757, L&P/3/336, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_336/paper-invention-of-a-general-method-for-determining-the-sum-of-every-2nd-3rd-4th-or-5th-term-of-a-series-taken-in-order-the-sum-of-the-whole-series-being-known-by-thomas-simpson, accessed on 07 February 2026

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