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Letter from Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, on a paper 'An intuitionistic correction of the fixed point theorem on the sphere' by Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, to D C Martin

Reference number: RR/75/349

Date: 15 January 1952

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Paper reference code: A304

Newman adds a few 'informal words' in addition to his report.

Written at Department of Mathematics, The University, Manchester, 13 [England].

[Published in Proceedings A, 1952].

Endorsed on recto as received 17 January 1952.

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RR/75/349
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15 January 1952
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Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, Letter from Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, on a paper 'An intuitionistic correction of the fixed point theorem on the sphere' by Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, to D C Martin, 15 January 1952, RR/75/349, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_75_349/letter-from-maxwell-herman-alexander-newman-on-a-paper-an-intuitionistic-correction-of-the-fixed-point-theorem-on-the-sphere-by-luitzen-egbertus-jan-brouwer-to-d-c-martin, accessed on 06 February 2026

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