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

Reference number: RR/10/162

Date: 21 May 1888

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Is unclear on the exact subject referred to in the remarks made by the Committee. Refers to work of James Joseph Sylvester, Edwin Bailey Elliott and Georges Henri Halphen. Is happy to add an additional note regarding the work of Edwin Bailey Elliott to the end of the paper. Refers to work of James Joseph Sylvester, Percy Alexander MacMahon, Hammond and Lendesdorf. Will ask Herbert Rix for the paper.

Subject: Mathematics

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

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RR/10/162
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21 May 1888
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4 pages
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Letter from Andrew Russell Forsyth, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A class of functional invariants' by Andrew Russell Forsyth, 21 May 1888, RR/10/162, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_162/letter-from-andrew-russell-forsyth-to-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh-regarding-a-paper-a-class-of-functional-invariants-by-andrew-russell-forsyth, accessed on 22 March 2025

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