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Referee's report by Edwin Bailey Elliott, on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partitions of numbers.—Part II' by Percy Alexander MacMahon

Reference number: RR/14/62

Date: 21 December 1898

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Notes two minor errors for the author to correct in the final proofs.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on recto as received 22 December 1898.

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RR/14/62
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21 December 1898
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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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 partitions of numbers.—Part II' by Percy Alexander MacMahon, 21 December 1898, RR/14/62, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_14_62/referees-report-by-edwin-bailey-elliott-on-a-paper-memoir-on-the-theory-of-the-partitions-of-numberspart-ii-by-percy-alexander-macmahon, accessed on 15 January 2025

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