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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Problems in two-dimensional electrostatics' by D M Winch

Reference number: RR/31/83

Date: June 1924

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', but with hesitation. Suggests the paper is more suited for the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society or the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 30 June 1924.

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RR/31/83
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June 1924
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Problems in two-dimensional electrostatics' by D M Winch, June 1924, RR/31/83, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_31_83/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-problems-in-two-dimensional-electrostatics-by-d-m-winch, accessed on 10 October 2024

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