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Referee's report by Herbert William Richmond, on a paper 'The relations connecting the angle-sums and volume of a polytope in space of n dimensions' by D M Y Sommerville

Reference number: RR/34/105

Date: December 1926

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Refers to work of Richmond and Karl Pearson.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1927]

Endorsed on verso as received 11 December 1926.

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RR/34/105
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December 1926
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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5 pages
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Herbert William Richmond, Referee's report by Herbert William Richmond, on a paper 'The relations connecting the angle-sums and volume of a polytope in space of n dimensions' by D M Y Sommerville, December 1926, RR/34/105, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_34_105/referees-report-by-herbert-william-richmond-on-a-paper-the-relations-connecting-the-angle-sums-and-volume-of-a-polytope-in-space-of-n-dimensions-by-d-m-y-sommerville, accessed on 06 February 2026

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