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Referee's report by Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich and Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On the numerical solution of integral-equations' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker

Reference number: RR/24/91

Date: 28 February 1918

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the author should discuss the processes and amount of error that could occur. Finds the paper disappointing.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1918]

No received date.

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RR/24/91
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28 February 1918
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Letter on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich

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Godfrey Harold Hardy

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Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich, Godfrey Harold Hardy, Referee's report by Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich and Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'On the numerical solution of integral-equations' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, 28 February 1918, RR/24/91, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_91/referees-report-by-thomas-john-ianson-bromwich-and-godfrey-harold-hardy-on-a-paper-on-the-numerical-solution-of-integral-equations-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker, accessed on 11 December 2025

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