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Referee's report by William Vallance Douglas Hodge, on a paper 'On non-commutative algebra and the foundations of projective geometry' by Henry Frederick Baker

Reference number: RR/73/258

Date: 28 October 1950

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Paper reference code: A194

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings with comments on part one of the paper on Hesenberg's application of the quadrangle figure, and part two giving proof on the 'methods of algebraic geometry'. Hodge recommends 'Baker's poof is well worth publishing'.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1951].

Date received not given.

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RR/73/258
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28 October 1950
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William Vallance Douglas Hodge, Referee's report by William Vallance Douglas Hodge, on a paper 'On non-commutative algebra and the foundations of projective geometry' by Henry Frederick Baker, 28 October 1950, RR/73/258, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_73_258/referees-report-by-william-vallance-douglas-hodge-on-a-paper-on-non-commutative-algebra-and-the-foundations-of-projective-geometry-by-henry-frederick-baker, accessed on 20 April 2025

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