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Letter from Alexander Craig Aitken, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy

Reference number: RR/68/155

Date: 08 August 1941

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Adds further comments on the work. Refers to work of Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler and James Stirling. The new work relates to central differencing. Hopes his note can help some other referee reach a quicker decision.

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

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RR/68/155
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08 August 1941
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Alexander Craig Aitken

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Alexander Craig Aitken, Letter from Alexander Craig Aitken, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy, 08 August 1941, RR/68/155, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_155/letter-from-alexander-craig-aitken-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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