| Reference number | RR/48/94 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by Edmund Taylor Whittaker, on a paper 'Probability likelihood and quantity of information in the logic of uncertain inference' by Ronald Aylmer Fisher |
| Date | [January 1934] |
| Description | Sectional Committee: Mathematics
Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Refers to work of Harold Jeffreys. The differing sides of the argument are no longer advancing anything new. It may be time to take steps 'to apply the closure to this controversy'. Recommends the paper be declined, thinks the recent acceptance of another paper by the same author 'may soften the blow'.
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1934]
Endorsed on verso as received 25 January 1934. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Standardised form (type D) |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1934.0134 Vol.146 1934 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA2270 | Whittaker; Sir; Edmund Taylor (1873 - 1956); mathematician and astronomer | 1873 - 1956 |
| NA7969 | Fisher; Sir; Ronald Aylmer (1890 - 1962); statistician and geneticist | 1890 - 1962 |