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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests the judgement of the paper should be suspended until the continuation of the paper is received. The researches in the current paper appear incomplete and are not 'bought to a sufficiently definitive result'.

Subject: Mathematics

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

Reference number
RR/5/190
Earliest possible date
06 September 1862
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Henry John Stephen Smith

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Henry John Stephen Smith, Referee's report by Henry John Stephen Smith, on a paper 'On Fermat's theorem of the polygonal numbers. —Second communication' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 06 September 1862, RR/5/190, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_190/referees-report-by-henry-john-stephen-smith-on-a-paper-on-fermats-theorem-of-the-polygonal-numbers-second-communication-by-jonathan-frederick-pollock, accessed on 09 February 2025

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