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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', in part. Is in agreement with Edmund Taylor Whittaker and Arthur Stanley Eddington. The four pages of 'good mathematics' should be published. The three pages of 'fallacious' claims that the mathematics settles an important astronomical problem, should not be published. Publishing the full paper will set the subject on the wrong track. Suggests the author re-present the paper, containing the good mathematics and a statement of what they prove.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1933]

Endorsed on verso as received 23 June 1932.

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RR/46/103
Earliest possible date
June 1932
Physical description
Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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James Hopwood Jeans

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James Hopwood Jeans, Referee's report by James Hopwood Jeans, on a paper 'On Eddington's problem of the expansion of the universe by condensation' by N R Sen, June 1932, RR/46/103, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_46_103/referees-report-by-james-hopwood-jeans-on-a-paper-on-eddingtons-problem-of-the-expansion-of-the-universe-by-condensation-by-n-r-sen, accessed on 14 February 2025

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