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Paper, 'On cubic equations and infinite series' by Charles Hutton

Reference number: L&P/7/165

Date: 1790

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Of cubic equations and infinite series'

Read 1 June 1780

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L&P/7/165
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1790
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Ink on paper
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35 pages
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Charles Hutton

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Charles Hutton, Paper, 'On cubic equations and infinite series' by Charles Hutton, 1790, L&P/7/165, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_165/paper-on-cubic-equations-and-infinite-series-by-charles-hutton, accessed on 16 January 2026

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