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Paper, 'On the differential equations which determine the form of the roots of algebraic equations' by George Boole

Reference number: PT/70/16

Date: 20 April 1864

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Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the differential equations which determine the form of the roots of algebraic equations'.

Received by the Royal Society on 27 April 1864. Read 26 May 1864.

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 13, 1864.

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PT/70/16
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20 April 1864
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Ink on paper
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31 pages
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Manuscript

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George Boole

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George Boole, Paper, 'On the differential equations which determine the form of the roots of algebraic equations' by George Boole, 20 April 1864, PT/70/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_70_16/paper-on-the-differential-equations-which-determine-the-form-of-the-roots-of-algebraic-equations-by-george-boole, accessed on 21 May 2025

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