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RefNoRR/16/54
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Henry Frederick Baker, on a paper 'The differential invariants of space' by Andrew Russell Forsyth
DateAugust 1903
DescriptionSectional Committee: Mathematics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full if the author wishes it, or if he thinks Baker's suggestions are not workable. Recomends possible pages to omit and gives 'four trifling suggestions'. Annotated by JL [Joseph Larmor] on 10 August that the Chairman of the Mathematical Committee might perhaps accept the paper and send a copy of the marked suggestions of the referees for the use of the author before going to press. Baker thinks the point of the paper is in fact the successful accomplishment of the solution of 57 partial differential equations. He cannot give sufficient time to speak with great certainty regarding its value and thinks it should be referred to a student of line geometry. While proposing to be about ordinary space it is in fact about special quadratic complexes. It is not the generalisation of the preceding paper relating to any surface. Suggests an alternative method that Forsyth might employ in his calculations.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1904].

Endorsed on verso as received 5 August 1903.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionStandardised form (type A)
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialRegister of papers 1903 104
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1904.0008 Vol.202 1904
RelatedRecordRR/16/56
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6837Forsyth; Andrew Russell (1858 - 1942); mathematician1858 - 1942
NA7577Baker; Henry Frederick (1866 - 1956); mathematician1866 - 1956
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