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Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the sextactic points of a plane curve' by Arthur Cayley

Reference number: RR/5/45

Date: 08 February 1865

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper completes the author's earlier paper 'On the conic of five-pointic contact at any point of a plane curve' in the Philosophical Transactions for 1859.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1865]

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RR/5/45
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08 February 1865
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Archer Hirst

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Thomas Archer Hirst, Referee's report by Thomas Archer Hirst, on a paper 'On the sextactic points of a plane curve' by Arthur Cayley, 08 February 1865, RR/5/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_5_45/referees-report-by-thomas-archer-hirst-on-a-paper-on-the-sextactic-points-of-a-plane-curve-by-arthur-cayley, accessed on 20 January 2025

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