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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Oblate spheroidal harmonics and their applications' by John William Nicholson

Reference number: RR/27/119

Date: December 1922

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, with modifications.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1924].

Endorsed on verso as received 13 December 1922.

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RR/27/119
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December 1922
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Oblate spheroidal harmonics and their applications' by John William Nicholson, December 1922, RR/27/119, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_27_119/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-oblate-spheroidal-harmonics-and-their-applications-by-john-william-nicholson, accessed on 21 July 2026

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