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Letter from James Joseph Sylvester, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth

Reference number: RR/10/160

Date: 29 April 1888

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Has just noticed the pencil notes on the manuscript in the hand of Arthur Cayley. Suggests the remarks be preserved in copy.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1889]

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RR/10/160
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29 April 1888
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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James Joseph Sylvester

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James Joseph Sylvester, Letter from James Joseph Sylvester, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth, 29 April 1888, RR/10/160, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_160/letter-from-james-joseph-sylvester-to-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh-regarding-a-paper-a-class-of-functional-invariants-by-andrew-russell-forsyth, accessed on 18 March 2025

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