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Referee's report by Alfred Bray Kempe, on a paper 'Combinational analysis - the foundations of a new theory' by Percy Alexander MacMahon

Reference number: RR/15/88

Date: 21 April 1900

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full with no modifications. The paper is most valuable. The methods it indicates and illustrates constitute a distinct advance in combinational analysis of a very interesting character. It is very suggestive and likely to lead to considerable developments.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1900].

Endorsed on verso as received 23 April 1900.

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Alfred Bray Kempe, Referee's report by Alfred Bray Kempe, on a paper 'Combinational analysis - the foundations of a new theory' by Percy Alexander MacMahon, 21 April 1900, RR/15/88, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_88/referees-report-by-alfred-bray-kempe-on-a-paper-combinational-analysis-the-foundations-of-a-new-theory-by-percy-alexander-macmahon, accessed on 13 January 2025

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