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Paper, 'Finding the values of algebaical quantities by converging series and estending propositions given by Pappus' by Edward Waring

Reference number: L&P/9/28

Date: 1787

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'On finding the values of algebraical quantities by converging serieses, and demonstrating and extending propositions given by Pappus and others'

Read 8 February 1787

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L&P/9/28
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1787
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11 pages
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Edward Waring

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Edward Waring, Paper, 'Finding the values of algebaical quantities by converging series and estending propositions given by Pappus' by Edward Waring, 1787, L&P/9/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_28/paper-finding-the-values-of-algebaical-quantities-by-converging-series-and-estending-propositions-given-by-pappus-by-edward-waring, accessed on 20 July 2026

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