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Letter from Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici, on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/13/67

Date: 04 February 1896

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He apologises for holding the paper for so long and that is report isn't as full as it should be. The paper is long and on a somewhat new subject and is written in a 'crude form' which makes it difficult to read. The paper should be published in Philosophical Transactions, in full, as the abstract alone doesn't give a good enough idea of the paper. All diagrams should also be published.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1895].

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RR/13/67
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04 February 1896
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Letter on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici

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Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici, Letter from Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici, on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 04 February 1896, RR/13/67, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_67/letter-from-olaus-magnus-friedrich-erdmann-henrici-on-a-paper-octonions-by-alex-mcaulay-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 07 February 2025

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