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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper attempts to prove a proposition which is untrue and has been disproved by a 'well known integral equation'.

Subject: Mathematics

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

Reference number
RR/6/188
Earliest possible date
16 August 1867
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Thomson

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William Thomson, Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the integrability of certain partial differential equations proposed by Mr. Airy' by R Moon, 16 August 1867, RR/6/188, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_6_188/referees-report-by-william-thomson-1st-baron-kelvin-on-a-paper-on-the-integrability-of-certain-partial-differential-equations-proposed-by-mr-airy-by-r-moon, accessed on 13 February 2025

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