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Paper, 'On the method of symmetric products and on certain circular functions connected with that method' by Rev Robert Harley

Reference number: PT/63/16

Date: 01 September 1860

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the method of symmetric products, and on certain circular functions connected with that method'.

Written by Harley at Castle Hill House, Brighouse, Yorkshire. Communicated by A [Arthur] Cayley. Received by the Royal Society on 18 October 1860. Read 13 December 1860.

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/63/16
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01 September 1860
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Ink on paper
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69 pages
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Robert Harley, Paper, 'On the method of symmetric products and on certain circular functions connected with that method' by Rev Robert Harley, 01 September 1860, PT/63/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_63_16/paper-on-the-method-of-symmetric-products-and-on-certain-circular-functions-connected-with-that-method-by-rev-robert-harley, accessed on 18 March 2025

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