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Paper, 'Note reflecting the demonstration of the binomial theorem inserted in the last volume of the Philos [Philosophical] Transactions' by Thos [Thomas] Knight

Reference number: PT/11/17

Date: 01 March 1817

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Accompanied by a letter from Thomas Knight to Taylor Combe at Somerset House in London, dated 6 March 1817. Paper dated 3 March 1817.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Note respecting the demonstration of the binomial theorem inserted in the last volume of the Philosophical Transactions'.

Written by Knight in Papcastle. Communicated by Taylor Combe. Read 17 April 1817.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/11/17
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01 March 1817
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Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Knight

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Thomas Knight, Paper, 'Note reflecting the demonstration of the binomial theorem inserted in the last volume of the Philos [Philosophical] Transactions' by Thos [Thomas] Knight, 01 March 1817, PT/11/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_11_17/paper-note-reflecting-the-demonstration-of-the-binomial-theorem-inserted-in-the-last-volume-of-the-philos-philosophical-transactions-by-thos-thomas-knight, accessed on 08 February 2025

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