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Letter from Godfrey Harold Hardy, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy

Reference number: RR/68/256

Date: 09 September 1942

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Sectional Committee: Mathematics

Would rather not act as an official referee, owing to the author's attack on one of his (the correspondent's) paper's last year. Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton only sent a former paper as a last resport when other referees were indecisive. Cannot report favourably in this case, but when the paper is rejected, as it will be, the author will assume it was the correspondent that was responsible. Suggests George Barker Jeffery as a suitable referee, as 'someone of standing and some seniority'. Encloses a note for the referee, to save some time. Refers to work of Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich.

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

Endorsed on recto as received 21 November 1942.

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RR/68/256
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09 September 1942
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Godfrey Harold Hardy, Letter from Godfrey Harold Hardy, to John David Griffith Davies, regarding a paper 'The summation of infinite harmonic series' by Frederick Soddy, 09 September 1942, RR/68/256, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_256/letter-from-godfrey-harold-hardy-to-john-david-griffith-davies-regarding-a-paper-the-summation-of-infinite-harmonic-series-by-frederick-soddy, accessed on 11 July 2025

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