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Referee's report by Alexander Craig Aitken, on a paper 'A purification method for computing the latent columns of numerical matrices and some integrals of differential equations' by Lewis Fry Richardson

Reference number: RR/72/228

Date: 1949

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, The paper is original in matter and presentation. To modify it would be a 'heavy task' and it should be published as it stands.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1950].

Date received not given.

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Alexander Craig Aitken, Referee's report by Alexander Craig Aitken, on a paper 'A purification method for computing the latent columns of numerical matrices and some integrals of differential equations' by Lewis Fry Richardson, 1949, RR/72/228, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_228/referees-report-by-alexander-craig-aitken-on-a-paper-a-purification-method-for-computing-the-latent-columns-of-numerical-matrices-and-some-integrals-of-differential-equations-by-lewis-fry-richardson, accessed on 09 December 2024

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