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Withdraws his previous recommendation. Suggests that William Burnside's opinion should carry more weight than his own, but it is not so. His previous recommendation rested on the task and method was new, and could be applied to existing problems. William Burnside's reference to Ferdinand Georg Frobenius destroys this notion. Now does not recommend the paper be published in the Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Mathematics

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

Reference number
RR/14/272
Earliest possible date
11 February 1899
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Edwin Bailey Elliott

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Edwin Bailey Elliott, Second referee's report by Edwin Bailey Elliott, on a paper 'Sets of operations in relation to groups of finite order' by Alfred North Whitehead, 11 February 1899, RR/14/272, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_14_272/second-referees-report-by-edwin-bailey-elliott-on-a-paper-sets-of-operations-in-relation-to-groups-of-finite-order-by-alfred-north-whitehead, accessed on 06 December 2024

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