| RefNo | RR/16/400 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by William Burnside, on a paper 'Mathematical concepts of the material world' by Alfred North Whitehead |
| Date | October 1905 |
| Description | Without expressing any opinion on the physical speculations contained here and there in the memoir, as a whole the paper is a most valuable contribution to the logical study of the foundations of geometry and it ought to be published in the Philosophical Transactions
Burnside provides a note which might be sent to the author in which he queries whether the statement on page 39 by the authority of Veblem that 'from these twelve axioms the whole of geometry can be deduced' can possibly be true. Explains why he thinks the introduction of the theory of interpoints on page 54, at this point, before any of the axioms connected with concepts IV and V have been given, is distinctly puzzling.
[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1906]. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1906.0014 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/16/399 |
| RR/16/401 |
| RR/16/402 |
| RR/16/403 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6254 | Burnside; William (1852 - 1927) | 1852 - 1927 |
| NA6260 | Whitehead; Alfred North (1861 - 1947) | 1861 - 1947 |