Paper, 'Note on Rev Robert Harley's paper "Professor Malet's classes of invariants identified with Sir James Cockle's criticoids"' by John C [Christian] Malet

Description

Malet writes: 'In 1882, a paper of mine “On a Class of Invariants” appeared in the “Philosophical Transactions”, in which I used, for the determination of theorems, two classes of functions of the coefficients of linear differential equations. In consequence of a communication from the Rev Robert Harley [see PP/6/6], I appended to the paper the following note:— “Since the publication of the abstract of this paper, the Rev R Harley has mentioned to me that the first class of functions treated of here have [has] been already investigated by Sir James Cockle; having consulted the memoirs I was referred to by Mr Harley, I think little similarity will be found between Sir James Cockle’s results and mine.”'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Mathematics

Received 7 March 1885. Read 19 March 1885.

A version of this paper was published in volume 38 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as ''Note on Rev Robert Harley's paper "Professor Malet's classes of invariants identified with Sir James Cockle's criticoids"'.

Reference number

PP/6/23

Earliest possible date

1885

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

2 pages

Format

Manuscript