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Letter from William Burnside, on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partition of numbers. Part I' by Percy Alexander MacMahon to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/13/77

Date: 31 January 1896

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The report that he sent previously 'must have gone astray' . He re-iterates that he cannot offer an opinion of the paper, as he has no knowledge on this particular branch of mathematics. The paper should be referred to someone more qualified in this area.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1896].

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RR/13/77
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31 January 1896
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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William Burnside

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William Burnside, Letter from William Burnside, on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partition of numbers. Part I' by Percy Alexander MacMahon to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 31 January 1896, RR/13/77, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_77/letter-from-william-burnside-on-a-paper-memoir-on-the-theory-of-the-partition-of-numbers-part-i-by-percy-alexander-macmahon-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 13 January 2025

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