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Referee's report by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay

Reference number: RR/13/68

Date: 02 March 1896

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Agrees with Joseph Larmor that the paper should be published as a single book, rather than in Philosophical Transactions. It is too new in matter and would be out of place in Philosophical Transactions. Wishes the Council to make a grant with the 'special £1000 a year which they receive from government' to assist in it's publication.

Subject: Mathematics

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

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RR/13/68
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02 March 1896
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Andrew Russell Forsyth

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Andrew Russell Forsyth, Referee's report by Andrew Russell Forsyth, on a paper 'Octonions' by Alex McAulay, 02 March 1896, RR/13/68, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_68/referees-report-by-andrew-russell-forsyth-on-a-paper-octonions-by-alex-mcaulay, accessed on 20 March 2025

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