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Letter from James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, 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/13/78

Date: 08 June 1896

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He has enclosed his report, which is quite short. He 'doesn't fancy the paper very much 'and is generally against papers of technical mathematics being published in Philosophical Transactions, but it should be as it forms part of a series.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1896].

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RR/13/78
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08 June 1896
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Letter from James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, 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, 08 June 1896, RR/13/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_78/letter-from-james-whitbread-lee-glaisher-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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