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Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'Application of quaternions to rotations in hyperbolic space of four dimensions' by Arthur William Conway

Reference number: RR/69/70

Date: 31 March 1947

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. He has checked the work and it seems to be correct. The results are unsurprising but will be of technical interest.

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

Date received not given.

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RR/69/70
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31 March 1947
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George Barker Jeffery, Referee's report by George Barker Jeffery, on a paper 'Application of quaternions to rotations in hyperbolic space of four dimensions' by Arthur William Conway, 31 March 1947, RR/69/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_70/referees-report-by-george-barker-jeffery-on-a-paper-application-of-quaternions-to-rotations-in-hyperbolic-space-of-four-dimensions-by-arthur-william-conway, accessed on 08 August 2026

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