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

Reference number: RR/72/172

Date: 1949

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper is largely out of his depth.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 30 June 1949.

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RR/72/172
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1949
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3 pages
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Edward Arthur Milne, Referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'The use of quaternions in wave-tensor calculus' by C W Kilmister, 1949, RR/72/172, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_172/referees-report-by-edward-arthur-milne-on-a-paper-the-use-of-quaternions-in-wave-tensor-calculus-by-c-w-kilmister, accessed on 06 March 2026

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