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Referee's report by Henry John Stephen Smith, on a paper 'On Riccati's equation and its transformations, and on some definite integrals which satisfy them' by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

Reference number: RR/8/307

Date: 14 September 1881

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper is long but 'its value would be diminished by any curtailment'.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1881]

Reference number
RR/8/307
Earliest possible date
14 September 1881
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Henry John Stephen Smith

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Henry John Stephen Smith, Referee's report by Henry John Stephen Smith, on a paper 'On Riccati's equation and its transformations, and on some definite integrals which satisfy them' by James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, 14 September 1881, RR/8/307, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_307/referees-report-by-henry-john-stephen-smith-on-a-paper-on-riccatis-equation-and-its-transformations-and-on-some-definite-integrals-which-satisfy-them-by-james-whitbread-lee-glaisher, accessed on 16 February 2025

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