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Letter from Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'The use of quaternions in wave-tensor calculus' by C W Kilmister

Reference number: RR/72/171

Date: 03 August 1949

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He has looks at the revised paper and the author has met his points of criticism. It should be published in Proceedings.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1949].

Endorsed on recto as received 5 August 1949.

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RR/72/171
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03 August 1949
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Edward Arthur Milne, Letter from Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'The use of quaternions in wave-tensor calculus' by C W Kilmister, 03 August 1949, RR/72/171, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_171/letter-from-edward-arthur-milne-on-a-paper-the-use-of-quaternions-in-wave-tensor-calculus-by-c-w-kilmister, accessed on 21 April 2026

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