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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the comparison of transcendents, with certain applications to the theory of definite integrals'.

Communicated by W F [William Fishburn] Donkin. Received by the Royal Society on 16 March 1857. Read 7 May 1857.

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 8, 1857.

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PT/59/7
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1857
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118 pages
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Manuscript

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George Boole

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George Boole, Paper, 'On the comparison of transcendents with certain applications to the theory of definite integrals' by George Boole, 1857, PT/59/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_59_7/paper-on-the-comparison-of-transcendents-with-certain-applications-to-the-theory-of-definite-integrals-by-george-boole, accessed on 06 February 2025

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