Record

RefNoAP/25/14
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'A new method of solving numerical equations' by Thomas Weddle
CreatorWeddle; Thomas (1817-1853); English mathematician; Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
DateAugust 1840
DescriptionWeddle aims to develop a new, simple method of 'approximating to the real roots of numerical equations' and provides examples of his method.

Marked on back as 'Archives 10 June 1841 S H C [Samuel Hunter Christie]'.

Subject: Mathematics / Arithmetic

Received 29 August 1840. Communicated by S [Samuel] Hunter Christie.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'A new method of solving numerical equations'.
Extent38p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0159
RelatedRecordRR/1bis/51
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8168Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician1784 - 1865
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