| RefNo | AP/29/13 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On certain properties of prime numbers' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock |
| Date | February 1847 |
| Description | Pollock references Wilson's theorem and Gauss's theorem regarding prime numbers, and offers his corrections to Gauss's theorem.
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.
Subject: Mathematics
Received 11 February 1847.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On certain properties of prime numbers'. |
| Extent | 24p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0113 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6836 | Pollock; Sir; Jonathan Frederick (1783 - 1870) | 1783 - 1870 |