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Supplement to Sylvester's paper. Paper found at PT/47/7.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On a theory of the conjugate relations of two rational integral functions comprising an application to the theory of Sturm's functions and that of the greatest algebraical common measure'.

Abstract of paper 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 6, 1854.

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PT/47/8
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1853
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Ink on paper
Page extent
15 pages
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Manuscript

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James Joseph Sylvester

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James Joseph Sylvester, Paper, ['General and concluding statement'] by James Joseph Sylvester, 1853, PT/47/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_47_8/paper-general-and-concluding-statement-by-james-joseph-sylvester, accessed on 13 January 2025

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