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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1933].

Endorsed on verso as received 20 June 1932.

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RR/44/90
Earliest possible date
June 1932
Physical description
Standardised form (type D)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Patrick Playfair Laidlaw

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Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, Referee's report by Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, on a paper 'The tightness of the teeth, considered as a problem concerning the equilibrium of a thin incompressible elastic membrane' by John Lighton Synge, June 1932, RR/44/90, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_44_90/referees-report-by-patrick-playfair-laidlaw-on-a-paper-the-tightness-of-the-teeth-considered-as-a-problem-concerning-the-equilibrium-of-a-thin-incompressible-elastic-membrane-by-john-lighton-synge, accessed on 18 March 2025

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