Letter from James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the compositions of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon

Reference number: RR/12/4

Date: 21 June 1893

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Found the paper difficult to understand.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1893]

Reference number: RR/12/4
Earliest possible date: 21 June 1893
Physical description: Letter on paper
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript

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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Letter from James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the compositions of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon, 21 June 1893, RR/12/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_4/letter-from-james-whitbread-lee-glaisher-to-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh-regarding-a-paper-memoir-on-the-theory-of-the-compositions-of-numbers-by-percy-alexander-macmahon, accessed on 12 October 2024

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XVII. Memoir on the theory of the compositions of numbers External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1893

DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1893.0017

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Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the compositions of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon
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Referee's report by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the compositions of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon
Creator: James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Reference number: RR/12/5

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Referees' reports: volume 12, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1893-1895 Reference number: RR/12

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