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Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'An extension of Waring's problems' by E Maitland Wright

Reference number: RR/46/120

Date: 10 November 1932

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. There is still much research to be done, but the paper will 'stimulate the discussion'. Refers to work of Godfrey Harold Hardy and John Edensor Littlewood.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1934]

Endorsed on verso as received 11 November 1932.

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RR/46/120
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10 November 1932
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Louis Joel Mordell

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Louis Joel Mordell, Referee's report by Louis Joel Mordell, on a paper 'An extension of Waring's problems' by E Maitland Wright, 10 November 1932, RR/46/120, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_46_120/referees-report-by-louis-joel-mordell-on-a-paper-an-extension-of-warings-problems-by-e-maitland-wright, accessed on 06 December 2025

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