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Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'On Hilbert's world-function' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker

Reference number: RR/34/132

Date: November 1926

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Refers to work of David Hilbert.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 12 November 1926.

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RR/34/132
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November 1926
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4 pages
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George Barker Jeffery, Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'On Hilbert's world-function' by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, November 1926, RR/34/132, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_34_132/referees-report-by-george-barker-jeffery-on-a-paper-on-hilberts-world-function-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker, accessed on 16 September 2024

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