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Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Spheroidal wave-functions' by John William Nicholson

Reference number: RR/31/33

Date: October 1924

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Refers to work by Marc-Antoine Parseval and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Suggests omitting some of the arithmetic, as '[it] is dull stuff'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1925]

Endorsed on verso as received 9 October 1924.

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RR/31/33
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October 1924
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4 pages
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George Neville Watson

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George Neville Watson, Referee's report by George Neville Watson, on a paper 'Spheroidal wave-functions' by John William Nicholson, October 1924, RR/31/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_31_33/referees-report-by-george-neville-watson-on-a-paper-spheroidal-wave-functions-by-john-william-nicholson, accessed on 08 September 2024

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