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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On the numerical solution of equations with complex roots' by Robert Alexander Frazer and William Jolly Duncan

Reference number: RR/38/24

Date: May 1929

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The authors should read some other papers on the subject, of which the referee recommends two.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1929].

Endorsed on verso as received 9 May 1929.

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RR/38/24
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May 1929
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'On the numerical solution of equations with complex roots' by Robert Alexander Frazer and William Jolly Duncan, May 1929, RR/38/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_38_24/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-on-the-numerical-solution-of-equations-with-complex-roots-by-robert-alexander-frazer-and-william-jolly-duncan, accessed on 23 March 2025

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