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Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'Mathematical properties of a continuum' by W Band

Reference number: RR/41/16

Date: March 1930

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication. It is right in the main but it is 'hardly important enough' for the Proceedings. Previous work has been done on this subject so the paper may offer nothing new.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 19 March 1930.

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RR/41/16
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March 1930
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2 pages
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Arthur Stanley Eddington

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Arthur Stanley Eddington, Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'Mathematical properties of a continuum' by W Band, March 1930, RR/41/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_41_16/referees-report-by-arthur-stanley-eddington-on-a-paper-mathematical-properties-of-a-continuum-by-w-band, accessed on 14 November 2025

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