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Referee's report by George Ballard Mathews, on a paper 'Second memoir on the compositions of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon

Reference number: RR/17/61

Date: 18 September 1906

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Slight repetition at the beginning of the paper across p.i and p.1.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Endorsed on verso as received 20 September 1906.

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RR/17/61
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18 September 1906
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2 pages
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George Ballard Mathews

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George Ballard Mathews, Referee's report by George Ballard Mathews, on a paper 'Second memoir on the compositions of numbers' by Percy Alexander MacMahon, 18 September 1906, RR/17/61, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_61/referees-report-by-george-ballard-mathews-on-a-paper-second-memoir-on-the-compositions-of-numbers-by-percy-alexander-macmahon, accessed on 29 April 2025

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