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RefNoPT/25/13
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Investigation of a new and simple series by which the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference may easily by computed to any required degree of accuracy' by William Rutherford
Date16 April 1841
DescriptionThis is an earlier version of the paper found at PT/25/14.

Subject: Mathematics

Communicated by S [Samuel] Hunter Christie. Written by Rutherford at the Royal Military Academy. Received by the Royal Society on 16 April 1841. Read 6 May 1841.

Whilst this paper was not published in Philosophical Transactions, its abstract does appear in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 4, 1843.
Extent11p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0162
RelatedRecordRR/1bis/41
RR/1bis/42
RR/1bis/43
PT/25/14
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8168Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician1784 - 1865
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