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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the algebraic expression of the number of partitions of which a given number is susceptible'.

Written by Herschel in Collingwood [Kent]. Received by the Royal Society on 18 April 1850. Read 16 May 1850.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/38/5
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17 April 1850
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Ink on paper
Page extent
28 pages
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Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Paper, 'On the algebraic expression of the number of special partitions of which a given number is susceptible' by Sir J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel, 17 April 1850, PT/38/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_38_5/paper-on-the-algebraic-expression-of-the-number-of-special-partitions-of-which-a-given-number-is-susceptible-by-sir-j-f-w-john-frederick-william-herschel, accessed on 16 August 2026

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