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Letter from Godfrey Harold Hardy, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy

Reference number: RR/68/151

Date: 19 August 1941

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Comments on a referee setting parts of the problem in an exam paper. Finds the style unprofessional, but not bad' if a student had brought him the paper, he would advise that it be re-written, and submitted to the Journal of the London Mathematical Society, or the Oxford Quarterly Journal [Quarterly Journal of Mathematics].

Discusses a grant application by the London Mathematical Society, as discussed with Henry Hallett Dale.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

No received date.

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RR/68/151
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19 August 1941
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Godfrey Harold Hardy, Letter from Godfrey Harold Hardy, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy, 19 August 1941, RR/68/151, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_151/letter-from-godfrey-harold-hardy-to-alfred-charles-glyn-egerton-regarding-a-paper-the-summation-of-infinite-harmonic-series-by-frederick-soddy, accessed on 19 May 2025

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