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Referee's report by Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch , on a paper 'The approximation of logarithms of algebraic numbers' by Kurt Mahler

Reference number: RR/77/95

Date: 16 July 1952

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Sectional committee: Mathematics

Paper reference code: A81

Besicovitch comments the paper is written with 'lucidity' and easy to understand in 'general lines', however he is 'slow' with the 'infinite' algebra estimations within. Recommends the paper be seen by someone else.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1952].

Date received not given.

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Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Referee's report by Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch , on a paper 'The approximation of logarithms of algebraic numbers' by Kurt Mahler, 16 July 1952, RR/77/95, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_95/referees-report-by-abram-samoilovitch-besicovitch-on-a-paper-the-approximation-of-logarithms-of-algebraic-numbers-by-kurt-mahler, accessed on 21 January 2026

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