Referee's report by Alfred Cardew Dixon, on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partition of numbers, part IV' by Percy Alexander MacMahon
Reference number: RR/17/319
Date: August 1908

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Sectional committee: Mathematics
Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, without modifications.
[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1909].
Endorsed on verso as received 12 August 1908.
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- August 1908
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Alfred Cardew Dixon, Referee's report by Alfred Cardew Dixon, on a paper 'Memoir on the theory of the partition of numbers, part IV' by Percy Alexander MacMahon, August 1908, RR/17/319, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_319/referees-report-by-alfred-cardew-dixon-on-a-paper-memoir-on-the-theory-of-the-partition-of-numbers-part-iv-by-percy-alexander-macmahon, accessed on 19 March 2025
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Referees' reports: volume 17, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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