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Paper, 'On some new methods of investigating the sums of several classes of infinite series' by Charles Babbage

Reference number: PT/13/20

Date: 25 March 1819

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On some new methods of investigating the sums of several classes of infinite series'.

Read 1 April 1819.

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/13/20
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25 March 1819
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Ink on paper
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19 pages
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Manuscript

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Charles Babbage

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Charles Babbage, Paper, 'On some new methods of investigating the sums of several classes of infinite series' by Charles Babbage, 25 March 1819, PT/13/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_20/paper-on-some-new-methods-of-investigating-the-sums-of-several-classes-of-infinite-series-by-charles-babbage, accessed on 13 January 2026

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