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Referee's report by Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, on a paper 'An intuitionistic correction of the fixed point theorem on the sphere' by Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer

Reference number: RR/75/350

Date: 15 January 1952

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Paper reference code: A304

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Newman suggests since no previous paper of Brouwer's had appeared in the Proceedings he should be asked to give a reference where is 'terminology' can be found, along with other corrections and comments.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1952].

Date received not given.

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15 January 1952
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Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, Referee's report by Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, on a paper 'An intuitionistic correction of the fixed point theorem on the sphere' by Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, 15 January 1952, RR/75/350, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_75_350/referees-report-by-maxwell-herman-alexander-newman-on-a-paper-an-intuitionistic-correction-of-the-fixed-point-theorem-on-the-sphere-by-luitzen-egbertus-jan-brouwer, accessed on 23 January 2026

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