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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Finds the paper hard to understand. Comments about 'intolerably dull' physiology papers. 'I wish there was one medical [illegible] where the majority of them could appear'.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Reference number
RR/2/188
Earliest possible date
08 April 1850
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

George Peacock

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George Peacock, Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On the extension of the principle of Fermat’s theorem of the polygonal numbers to the higher orders of series whose ultimate differences are constant. With a new theorem proposed, applicable to all the orders' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 08 April 1850, RR/2/188, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_2_188/referees-report-by-george-peacock-on-a-paper-on-the-extension-of-the-principle-of-fermats-theorem-of-the-polygonal-numbers-to-the-higher-orders-of-series-whose-ultimate-differences-are-constant-with-a-new-theorem-proposed-applicable-to-all-the-orders-by-jonathan-frederick-pollock, accessed on 23 January 2025

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