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RefNoEC/1857/07
Previous numbersCert IX, 392; A04041
LevelItem
TitleKirkman, Thomas Penyngton: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationThe Revd Thomas Kirkman. The author of various memoirs in the Cambridge & Dublin Mathematical Journal, the Manchester Phil Transactions, the Phil Magazine, and the Philosophical Transactions relating to Permutations, the Partition of Numbers, Quaternions and Pluquaternions, and the enumeration and classification of Polyhedra. Distinguished for his acquaintance with the science of Mathematics, and one who is attached to science and anxious to promote its progress.
ProposersFrom General Knowledge. Wm Gravatt; C Wheatstone; Archibald Smith.
From Personal Knowledge. J J Sylvester; Eaton Hodgkinson; J P Joule; Edwd Wm Binney; WilliamThomson; James Booth
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Kirkman, Thomas Penyngton: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA1116Kirkman; Thomas Penyngton (1806 - 1895)1806 - 1895
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