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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, there is 'no part of the paper which would not gain by compression' and some parts should be omitted completely.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1859].

Reference number
RR/3/218
Earliest possible date
04 October 1858
Physical description
Report on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

George Boole

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George Boole, Referee's report by George Boole, on a paper 'On some remarkable relations which obtain among the roots of the four squares into which a number may be divided, as compared with the corresponding roots of certain other numbers' by Frederick Pollock, 04 October 1858, RR/3/218, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_3_218/referees-report-by-george-boole-on-a-paper-on-some-remarkable-relations-which-obtain-among-the-roots-of-the-four-squares-into-which-a-number-may-be-divided-as-compared-with-the-corresponding-roots-of-certain-other-numbers-by-frederick-pollock, accessed on 05 December 2024

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