Referee's report by Henry John Stephen Smith, on a paper 'Algebraical researches, containing a disquisition on Newton’s rule for the discovery of imaginary roots, and an allied rule applicable to a particular class of equations, together with a complete invariantive determination of the character of the roots of the general equation of the fifth degree, &c' by James Joseph Sylvester

Henry John Stephen Smith, Referee's report by Henry John Stephen Smith, on a paper 'Algebraical researches, containing a disquisition on Newton’s rule for the discovery of imaginary roots, and an allied rule applicable to a particular class of equations, together with a complete invariantive determination of the character of the roots of the general equation of the fifth degree, &c' by James Joseph Sylvester, 25 May 1864, RR/5/268, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_268/referees-report-by-henry-john-stephen-smith-on-a-paper-algebraical-researches-containing-a-disquisition-on-newtons-rule-for-the-discovery-of-imaginary-roots-and-an-allied-rule-applicable-to-a-particular-class-of-equations-together-with-a-complete-invariantive-determination-of-the-character-of-the-roots-of-the-general-equation-of-the-fifth-degree-c-by-james-joseph-sylvester, accessed on 19 November 2025

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