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RefNoPT/49/7
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TitlePaper, 'On certain properties of square numbers and other quadratic forms with a table of odd numbers from 1 to 191 divided into 4, 3 or 2 square numbers, the algebraic sum of whose roots (positive or negative) may equal 1 - by means of which table all the odd numbers up to 9503 may be resolved into not exceeding 4 square numbers' by Sir [Jonathan] Fred [Frederick] Pollock
Date[1853]
DescriptionSubject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On certain properties of square numbers and other quadratic forms, with a table of odd numbers from 1 to 191, divided into 4, 3 or 2 square numbers, the algebraic sum of whose roots (positive or negative) may equal 1, by means of which Table all the odd numbers up to 9503 may be resolved into not exceeding 4 square numbers'.

Received by the Royal Society on 20 December 1853. Read 23 December 1853.

Abstract published 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 6, 1854.
Extent28p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0137
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1854.0015
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6836Pollock; Sir; Jonathan Frederick (1783 - 1870)1783 - 1870
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