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Referee's report by Herbert WestrenTurnbull, on a paper 'On the simple group of order 25920' by John Arthur Todd

Reference number: RR/69/308

Date: 14 August 1946

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The equation of the quantic primal should be stated and a further explanation of how he gets the precise number of operations in the various sets. The paper is a 'remarkable work'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1947].

Date received not given.

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RR/69/308
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14 August 1946
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Herbert Westren Turnbull, Referee's report by Herbert WestrenTurnbull, on a paper 'On the simple group of order 25920' by John Arthur Todd, 14 August 1946, RR/69/308, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_308/referees-report-by-herbert-westrenturnbull-on-a-paper-on-the-simple-group-of-order-25920-by-john-arthur-todd, accessed on 22 March 2025

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