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Paper, 'Further researches on the partition of numbers' by A [Arthur] Cayley

Reference number: PT/52/6

Date: 11 April 1855

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Researches on the partition of numbers'.

Written by Cayley at 2 Stone Buildings [Lincoln's Inn, London]. Received by the Royal Society on 14 April 1855. Read 3 and 10 May 1855.

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 7, 1856.

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PT/52/6
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11 April 1855
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22 pages
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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Paper, 'Further researches on the partition of numbers' by A [Arthur] Cayley, 11 April 1855, PT/52/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_52_6/paper-further-researches-on-the-partition-of-numbers-by-a-arthur-cayley, accessed on 24 January 2026

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