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Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'The relation of Eddington's E-numbers to the tensor calculus. I. The matrix form of E-numbers' by Samuel Roslington Milner

Reference number: RR/77/87

Date: 29 May 1952

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Paper reference code: A74

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Whittaker comments: 'I am very glad that Professor Milner has at last yielded to the wishes of many friends (of whom I was one) and written up his researches for publication. As I read his MSS a year or so ago, I have not checked the present paper in detail'.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1952].

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Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'The relation of Eddington's E-numbers to the tensor calculus. I. The matrix form of E-numbers' by Samuel Roslington Milner, 29 May 1952, RR/77/87, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_87/referees-report-by-edmund-taylor-whittaker-on-a-paper-the-relation-of-eddingtons-e-numbers-to-the-tensor-calculus-i-the-matrix-form-of-e-numbers-by-samuel-roslington-milner, accessed on 08 November 2025

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