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Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'The design of repeating patterns' by Percy Alexander MacMahon and W P D MacMahon

Reference number: RR/26/97

Date: January 1922

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The substance of the paper should be published, but considers the author to have 'allowed himself to form an extremely exaggerated idea of the importance of the whole subject'. The mathematical content is disappointing. Refers to Bennett's theorem. Suggests reducing the number of drawings and photographing the others to save money by not employing a draughtsman.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1922]

Endorsed on verso as received 24 January 1922.

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RR/26/97
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January 1922
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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5 pages
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Godfrey Harold Hardy, Referee's report by Godfrey Harold Hardy, on a paper 'The design of repeating patterns' by Percy Alexander MacMahon and W P D MacMahon, January 1922, RR/26/97, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_97/referees-report-by-godfrey-harold-hardy-on-a-paper-the-design-of-repeating-patterns-by-percy-alexander-macmahon-and-w-p-d-macmahon, accessed on 16 January 2025

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