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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Considers the algebra used to be unsuitable.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1863]

Reference number
RR/5/189
Earliest possible date
22 October 1862
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'On Fermat's theorem of the polygonal numbers. —Second communication' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 22 October 1862, RR/5/189, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_189/referees-report-by-arthur-cayley-on-a-paper-on-fermats-theorem-of-the-polygonal-numbers-second-communication-by-jonathan-frederick-pollock, accessed on 11 September 2024

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