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Referee's report by Herbet Westren Turnbull, on a paper 'Ternary quadratic types' by John Arthur Todd

Reference number: RR/71/267

Date: February 1948

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The paper is lengthy and 'rounds off a chapter in the invariant theory which was initiataed 100 years ago by Coole, Cayley and later, the German school of Clebsch and Gordan'. He is glad that a problem he worked on forty years ago 'should at last find a seconder who has so well completed it'. It should be acceopted, despite it's length. Some small modifications could be made.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1948].

Endorsed on verso as received 15 March 1948.

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RR/71/267
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February 1948
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3 pages
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Herbert Westren Turnbull, Referee's report by Herbet Westren Turnbull, on a paper 'Ternary quadratic types' by John Arthur Todd, February 1948, RR/71/267, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_71_267/referees-report-by-herbet-westren-turnbull-on-a-paper-ternary-quadratic-types-by-john-arthur-todd, accessed on 22 March 2025

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