Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Unified field theory in a curvature-free five-dimensional manifold' by J G Bennett, R L Brown and M W Thring
Reference number: RR/71/34
Date: 1948
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Sectional Committee: Mathematics
Recomended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', although it is rather long and heavy. The paper is difficult to follow, but it is important and original work. Refers to work by Christiaan Huygens and Arthur Stanley Eddington.
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']
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- 2 pages
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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Unified field theory in a curvature-free five-dimensional manifold' by J G Bennett, R L Brown and M W Thring, 1948, RR/71/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_71_34/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-unified-field-theory-in-a-curvature-free-five-dimensional-manifold-by-j-g-bennett-r-l-brown-and-m-w-thring, accessed on 23 March 2025
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Date: 22nd July 1949
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1949.0086
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Referee's report by Walter Heinrich Heitler, on a paper 'Unified field theory in a curvature-free five-dimensional manifold' by J G Bennett, R L Brown and M W Thring
Creator: Walter Heinrich Heitler Reference number: RR/71/33
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Referees' reports: volume 71, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
1948 Reference number: RR/71
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