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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Refers to work of Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, to which the author seems poorly aquainted.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Reference number
RR/14/269
Earliest possible date
1899
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Burnside

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William Burnside, Detailed referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'Sets of operations in relation to groups of finite order' by Alfred North Whitehead, 1899, RR/14/269, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_14_269/detailed-referees-report-by-william-burnside-on-a-paper-sets-of-operations-in-relation-to-groups-of-finite-order-by-alfred-north-whitehead, accessed on 15 January 2025

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