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Paper, 'Professor Malet's classes of invariants identified with Sir James Cockle's criticoids' by Robert Harley

Reference number: PP/6/6

Date: 1884

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Harley writes: 'Professor Malet, in a paper entitled “On a Class of Invariants”, printed in the “ Philosophical Transactions” for 1882, Part III, pp. 751-776, says he has not seen it noticed by any mathematician that “in the theory of linear differential equations there are two important classes of functions of the coefficients which have remarkable analogies to the invariants of algebraic binary quantics".'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Mathematics

Received 10 December 1884. Read 18 December 1884.

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

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PP/6/6
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1884
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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34 pages
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Robert Harley

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Robert Harley, Paper, 'Professor Malet's classes of invariants identified with Sir James Cockle's criticoids' by Robert Harley, 1884, PP/6/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_6_6/paper-professor-malets-classes-of-invariants-identified-with-sir-james-cockles-criticoids-by-robert-harley, accessed on 13 August 2026

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