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
Reference number: RR/6/188
Date: 16 August 1867

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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.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
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- Letter on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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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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Date: 31st December 1867
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1866.0112
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Referees' reports on scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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Referees' reports: volume 6, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1866-1869 Reference number: RR/6
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