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Referee's report by James Whitebread Lee Glaisher, on a paper 'Seventh memoir on the partition of numbers. A detailed study of the enumeration of the partitions of multipartite numbers' by Major P A McMahon

Reference number: RR/23/56

Date: 17 July 1916

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1918].

Endorsed on verso as received 17 July 1916.

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RR/23/56
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17 July 1916
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2 pages
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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Referee's report by James Whitebread Lee Glaisher, on a paper 'Seventh memoir on the partition of numbers. A detailed study of the enumeration of the partitions of multipartite numbers' by Major P A McMahon, 17 July 1916, RR/23/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_23_56/referees-report-by-james-whitebread-lee-glaisher-on-a-paper-seventh-memoir-on-the-partition-of-numbers-a-detailed-study-of-the-enumeration-of-the-partitions-of-multipartite-numbers-by-major-p-a-mcmahon, accessed on 05 December 2025

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