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Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, 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

Reference number: RR/12/380

Date: 14 February 1895

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Recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, if condensed. The paper contains no references. Refers to work of Oskar Bolza, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass, Michael Roberts, Andrew Russell Forsyth, Christian Felix Klein and Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt. The paper is more suited for a mathematical journal. Suggests the author familiarise himself with the works of Christian Felix Klein.

Subject: Mathematics

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

Reference number
RR/12/380
Earliest possible date
14 February 1895
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Alfred George Greenhill

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Alfred George Greenhill, Referee's report by Alfred George Greenhill, 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, 14 February 1895, RR/12/380, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_380/referees-report-by-alfred-george-greenhill-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 19 September 2024

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