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Paper, 'On a new auxiliary equation in the theory of equations of the fifth order' by A [Arthur] Cayley

Reference number: PT/63/13

Date: 1861

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On a new auxiliary equation in the theory of equations of the fifth order'.

Received by the Royal Society on 20 February 1861. Read 7 March 1861.

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 11, 1862.

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PT/63/13
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1861
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Ink on paper; all pages folded
Page extent
23 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Paper, 'On a new auxiliary equation in the theory of equations of the fifth order' by A [Arthur] Cayley, 1861, PT/63/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_63_13/paper-on-a-new-auxiliary-equation-in-the-theory-of-equations-of-the-fifth-order-by-a-arthur-cayley, accessed on 17 March 2026

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