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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whitaker, on a paper 'On a class of transcendents of which the bessel functions are a particular case' by Percy Alexander MacMahon

Reference number: RR/29/26

Date: June 1923

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1923].

Endorsed on verso as received 12 June 1923.

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RR/29/26
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June 1923
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4 pages
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whitaker, on a paper 'On a class of transcendents of which the bessel functions are a particular case' by Percy Alexander MacMahon, June 1923, RR/29/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_29_26/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whitaker-on-a-paper-on-a-class-of-transcendents-of-which-the-bessel-functions-are-a-particular-case-by-percy-alexander-macmahon, accessed on 16 November 2025

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