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Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'On the envelope of planes through the points of an ellipsoid at right angles to the radius vectors from the centre' by Arthur Cayley

Reference number: RR/3/60

Date: 05 May 1858

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Does not recommend paper being published in [Philosophical] Transactions. States that it is 'better fitted for publication in some exclusively mathematical journal'

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1859]

Reference number
RR/3/60
Earliest possible date
05 May 1858
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Archibald Smith

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Archibald Smith, Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'On the envelope of planes through the points of an ellipsoid at right angles to the radius vectors from the centre' by Arthur Cayley, 05 May 1858, RR/3/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_3_60/referees-report-by-archibald-smith-on-a-paper-on-the-envelope-of-planes-through-the-points-of-an-ellipsoid-at-right-angles-to-the-radius-vectors-from-the-centre-by-arthur-cayley, accessed on 11 October 2024

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