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Not recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Refers to work of Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann and Augustin-Louis Cauchy. The approach taken is inexact and 'masked by the very artificial nature of the analysis used'. The abstract does not give an idea of the methods employed.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1895]

Reference number
RR/12/379
Earliest possible date
02 February 1895
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Burnside

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William Burnside, Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'On the Abelian system of differential equations, and their rational and integral algebraic integrals, with a discussion of the periodicity of Abelian functions' by W R Westropp Roberts, 02 February 1895, RR/12/379, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_379/referees-report-by-william-burnside-on-a-paper-on-the-abelian-system-of-differential-equations-and-their-rational-and-integral-algebraic-integrals-with-a-discussion-of-the-periodicity-of-abelian-functions-by-w-r-westropp-roberts, accessed on 24 March 2025

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