| RefNo | RR/2/188 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Referee's report by George Peacock, on a paper 'On the extension of the principle of Fermat’s theorem of the polygonal numbers to the higher orders of series whose ultimate differences are constant. With a new theorem proposed, applicable to all the orders' by Jonathan Frederick Pollock |
| Date | 8 April 1850 |
| Description | Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Finds the paper hard to understand. Comments about 'intolerably dull' physiology papers. 'I wish there was one medical [illegible] where the majority of them could appear'.
Subject: Mathematics
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'] |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Letter on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0223 Vol.5 1851 |
| RelatedRecord | AP/32/15 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7093 | Peacock; George (1791 - 1858) | 1791 - 1858 |
| NA6836 | Pollock; Sir; Jonathan Frederick (1783 - 1870) | 1783 - 1870 |