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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Mathematical properties of a continuum' by W Band

Reference number: RR/41/15

Date: April 1930

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication. There is nothing new in the paper that hasn't already been discovered by Schouten. It is strange that the author doesn't refer to Schouten's work. However, he lives in China so might not be up to date with contemporary scientific publications.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 23 April 1930.

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RR/41/15
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April 1930
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2 pages
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Mathematical properties of a continuum' by W Band, April 1930, RR/41/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_41_15/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-mathematical-properties-of-a-continuum-by-w-band, accessed on 13 January 2026

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