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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.

Will report on Sir F Pollock's [Jonathan Frederick Pollock?] paper when he has been to see Batholomew Price.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]

Reference number
RR/6/63
Earliest possible date
07 April 1868
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Henry John Stephen Smith

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Henry John Stephen Smith, Referee's report by Henry John Stephen Smith, on a paper 'On the conditions for the existence of three equal roots, or of two pairs of equal roots, of a binary quartic or quintic' by Arthur Cayley, 07 April 1868, RR/6/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_6_63/referees-report-by-henry-john-stephen-smith-on-a-paper-on-the-conditions-for-the-existence-of-three-equal-roots-or-of-two-pairs-of-equal-roots-of-a-binary-quartic-or-quintic-by-arthur-cayley, accessed on 09 December 2024

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