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Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy

Reference number: RR/68/254

Date: 25 September 1942

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper is interesting, but not of the kind for the Royal Society. It does not contain new ideas or results, but does not feel competent to judge if the results are of value to computation.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

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

No received date.

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RR/68/254
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25 September 1942
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2 pages
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George Barker Jeffery, Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy, 25 September 1942, RR/68/254, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_254/referees-report-by-george-barker-jeffery-on-a-paper-the-summation-of-infinite-harmonic-series-by-frederick-soddy, accessed on 11 July 2025

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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