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Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'A certain class of generating functions in the theory of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon

Reference number: RR/12/194

Date: 28 November 1893

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Recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The abstract previously published in the Proceedings should be affixed to the current paper as a preface. Provides a mathematical note for consideration as an annex.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1894]

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RR/12/194
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28 November 1893
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'A certain class of generating functions in the theory of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon, 28 November 1893, RR/12/194, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_194/referees-report-by-arthur-cayley-on-a-paper-a-certain-class-of-generating-functions-in-the-theory-of-numbers-by-percy-alexander-macmahon, accessed on 12 September 2024

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