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Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'Memoir on symmetric functions of the roots of systems of equations' by Percy Alexander MacMahon

Reference number: RR/10/362

Date: 12 March 1890

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1890

Reference number
RR/10/362
Earliest possible date
12 March 1890
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'Memoir on symmetric functions of the roots of systems of equations' by Percy Alexander MacMahon, 12 March 1890, RR/10/362, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_362/referees-report-by-arthur-cayley-on-a-paper-memoir-on-symmetric-functions-of-the-roots-of-systems-of-equations-by-percy-alexander-macmahon, accessed on 22 March 2025

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