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Letter, 'Supplement to a paper on the differential equations of dynamics' by George Boole

Reference number: PT/69/7

Date: 07 February 1863

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Letter from Boole to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes relating to Boole's paper titled 'On the differential equations of dynamics. A sequel to a paper on simultaneous differential equations'. A portion of this letter was abstracted in Proceedings of the Royal Society, but was not published as part of Boole's paper in Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Mathematics

Written by Boole at Blackrock near Cork [Ireland]. Received by the Royal Society on 9 February 1863. Read 12 March 1863.

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 12, 1863.

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PT/69/7
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07 February 1863
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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George Boole

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George Boole, Letter, 'Supplement to a paper on the differential equations of dynamics' by George Boole, 07 February 1863, PT/69/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_69_7/letter-supplement-to-a-paper-on-the-differential-equations-of-dynamics-by-george-boole, accessed on 17 January 2025

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