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Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Notes on a differential equation which occurs in the two-dimensional motion of a compressible fluid and the associated variational problems' by Harry Bateman

Reference number: RR/39/12

Date: May 1929

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', with hesitation. Refers to work of Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and Daniel Bernoulli. The work is of a preliminary nature and gives no definite solutions.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 11 May 1929.

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May 1929
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Harold Jeffreys, Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'Notes on a differential equation which occurs in the two-dimensional motion of a compressible fluid and the associated variational problems' by Harry Bateman, May 1929, RR/39/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_39_12/referees-report-by-harold-jeffreys-on-a-paper-notes-on-a-differential-equation-which-occurs-in-the-two-dimensional-motion-of-a-compressible-fluid-and-the-associated-variational-problems-by-harry-bateman, accessed on 20 September 2024

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