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Letter from Andrew Russell Forsyth, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A certain class of generating functions in the theory of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon

Reference number: RR/12/195

Date: 28 December 1893

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Encloses report [RR/12/196]. The author's decision to reject or accept the suggestions should be final, but it is not a condition of publication.

Subject: Mathematics

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

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RR/12/195
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28 December 1893
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Andrew Russell Forsyth

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Andrew Russell Forsyth, Letter from Andrew Russell Forsyth, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'A certain class of generating functions in the theory of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon, 28 December 1893, RR/12/195, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_195/letter-from-andrew-russell-forsyth-to-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh-regarding-a-paper-a-certain-class-of-generating-functions-in-the-theory-of-numbers-by-percy-alexander-macmahon, accessed on 11 September 2024

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