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Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Some definite integrals and a new method of reducing a function of spherical coordinates to a series of spherical harmonics' by Arthur Schuster

Reference number: RR/15/381

Date: 15 June 1902

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. There is no discussion of illustrations. It is a valuable piece of work. He has not verified the various definite integrals as this would be a long piece of work.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1903].

Endorsed on verso as received 17 June 1902.

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George Howard Darwin, Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'Some definite integrals and a new method of reducing a function of spherical coordinates to a series of spherical harmonics' by Arthur Schuster, 15 June 1902, RR/15/381, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_381/referees-report-by-george-howard-darwin-on-a-paper-some-definite-integrals-and-a-new-method-of-reducing-a-function-of-spherical-coordinates-to-a-series-of-spherical-harmonics-by-arthur-schuster, accessed on 11 December 2024

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