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Referee's report by Edwin Bailey Elliott on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partition of numbers. Part I' by Percy Alexander MacMahon

Reference number: RR/13/81

Date: 17 June 1896

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He would like to know if the last investigation in the memoir is really a second proof or only an investigation valuable for its own sake . If the latter is true, this passage should be re-worded.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1896].

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RR/13/81
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17 June 1896
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Edwin Bailey Elliott

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Edwin Bailey Elliott, Referee's report by Edwin Bailey Elliott on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partition of numbers. Part I' by Percy Alexander MacMahon, 17 June 1896, RR/13/81, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_81/referees-report-by-edwin-bailey-elliott-on-a-paper-memoir-on-the-theory-of-the-partition-of-numbers-part-i-by-percy-alexander-macmahon, accessed on 09 December 2024

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