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RefNoEC/1883/16
Previous numbersCert XI, 56
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TitleWalker, John James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationAuthor of the following mathematical papers
1. 'Focal Properties of curves and surfaces of the second order'
Camb & Dubl Math Journal vol vii
2. 'Iris seen on the surface of Water' Phil Magazine June, 1853,
Annales de Chemie et de Physique Tom xxxix
Brit Assocn Report 1859
3. 'On the resolution of composite Quantities into Factors' Quar Jo of Maths vols vi & vii
4. 'On the Anharmonic Ratio Sextic' ib. vol x
5. 'On the Canonical Form of the Nodal Plane Cubic. ib. vol xiv
6. 'Properties of the Discriminant of the Quaternary Quadratic Form'. Messr of Maths vol iv
7. 'On Conditions for and equation of corresponding Points in certain Involutions.' Proc Lond Math Soc J
vol iii
8. 'On systems of Tangents to Plane Cubics and Quartic Curves.' ib. vol ii
9. 'Invariant Conditions for three conics having common points. ib. vol iv
10. 'On a method in the analysis of Plane Curves' ib. vol ix
11. 'Theorems in the Calculus of Operations' ib. vols xi and xii
and of many shorter communications to the same and other serials.
ProposersFrom Personal Knowledge: A Cayley; Saml Roberts; James Cockle; C W Merrifield ; Robert Harley; J W L Glaisher; Henry J S Smith; W S Jevons; O Henrici; M W Crofton; Benjn Williamson
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Walker, John James: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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