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Letter from Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'On the discrimination of maxima and minima solutions in the calculus of variations' by E P Culverwell to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh

Reference number: RR/9/346

Date: 28 December 1886

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Has read Andrew Russell Forsyth's report on the paper and believes the author should take his suggestions on board.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1886].

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RR/9/346
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28 December 1886
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Cayley

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Arthur Cayley, Letter from Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'On the discrimination of maxima and minima solutions in the calculus of variations' by E P Culverwell to John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, 28 December 1886, RR/9/346, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_346/letter-from-arthur-cayley-on-a-paper-on-the-discrimination-of-maxima-and-minima-solutions-in-the-calculus-of-variations-by-e-p-culverwell-to-john-william-strutt-lord-rayleigh, accessed on 08 December 2024

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