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Paper, 'On the equation for the product of the differences of all but one of the roots of a given equation' by A [Arthur] Cayley

Reference number: PT/63/3

Date: 1860

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the equation for the product of the differences of all but one of the roots of a given equation'.

Received by the Royal Society on 30 November 1860. Read 10 January 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/63/3
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1860
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Ink on paper; all pages folded
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22 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Paper, 'On the equation for the product of the differences of all but one of the roots of a given equation' by A [Arthur] Cayley, 1860, PT/63/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_63_3/paper-on-the-equation-for-the-product-of-the-differences-of-all-but-one-of-the-roots-of-a-given-equation-by-a-arthur-cayley, accessed on 15 March 2025

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