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
- Earliest possible date
- 1884
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- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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- 34 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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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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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 38, 1884-1885
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