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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Paper reference code: A210

Watson remarks he has 'wasted attempts' to try and understand this paper, however it is incomprehensible.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1954].

Date received not given.

Reference number
RR/77/248
Earliest possible date
05 May 1953
Physical description
Standardised form (type E)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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George Neville Watson

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George Neville Watson, Referee's report by George Nevill Watson, on a paper 'Spectral theory for the differential equations of simple birth and death processes' by W Ledermann and G E H Reuter, 05 May 1953, RR/77/248, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_248/referees-report-by-george-nevill-watson-on-a-paper-spectral-theory-for-the-differential-equations-of-simple-birth-and-death-processes-by-w-ledermann-and-g-e-h-reuter, accessed on 10 February 2025

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