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RefNoHS/18/54
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Henry Warburton to Sir John Herschel, dated at 45 Cadogan Place
CreatorHenry Warburton
Date24 February 1850
DescriptionAutograph letter signed by sender. Admires chimes analogy in John Frederick William Herschel's 'On Circulating Functions' [1818]. Resumed interest in partitions of numbers in development of periodic functions. Finds John Frederick William Herschel's method superior. Encourages him to publish it. Henry Warburton and Augustus De Morgan developed original method, which Henry Warburton erred in attributing to Leonhard Euler. De Morgan's paper to Cambridge [Philosophical] Society demonstrates theorem leading to proof of Euler's theorem.
LanguageEnglish
Extent8pp
FormatManuscript
Place origin45 Cadogan Place, London
Origin coordinates51.496667, -0.1575
AccessStatusOpen
URLDescriptionAlso available on Epsilon
URLhttps://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel7850
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3076Warburton; Henry (? 1784 - 1858); politician? 1784 - 1858
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
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