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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The referee provides further calculations.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1861].

Reference number
RR/4/227
Earliest possible date
1861
Physical description
Report on paper
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

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George Boole

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George Boole, Referee's report by George Boole, on a paper 'On the calculus of symbols, with applications to the theory of differential equations' by William Henry Leighton Russell, 1861, RR/4/227, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_4_227/referees-report-by-george-boole-on-a-paper-on-the-calculus-of-symbols-with-applications-to-the-theory-of-differential-equations-by-william-henry-leighton-russell, accessed on 13 June 2025

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