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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Asymptotic formulae for hypergeometric functions' by Thomas MacFarlane Cherry

Reference number: RR/72/56

Date: 20 March 1950

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

He has looked over the paper but not read it in enough detail to understand it fully. The paper should be refereed by Temple, Haworth or Hartree. He has no doubt that the work is correct.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1950 with the title 'Asymptotic expansions for the hypergeometric functions occurring in gas-flow theory'].

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RR/72/56
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20 March 1950
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'Asymptotic formulae for hypergeometric functions' by Thomas MacFarlane Cherry, 20 March 1950, RR/72/56, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_56/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-asymptotic-formulae-for-hypergeometric-functions-by-thomas-macfarlane-cherry, accessed on 24 June 2025

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