Item 6 - Letter to Percy Alexander MacMahon

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MacMahon/B/2/6

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GB 275 MacMahon/B/2/6

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Letter to Percy Alexander MacMahon

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  • 28 January 1910 (Creation)

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(1852-1927)

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Admitted to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1871. Migrated to Pembroke College, 1873; graduated B.A. (2nd Wrangler), 1875; Fellow and Lecturer of Pembroke College, 1875-1886; Professor of mathematics at the Royal Navy College, Greenwich, 1885-1919. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1893.

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A manuscript letter sent to Percy Alexander MacMahon from William Burnside, in which he writes that Sir Charles Watson's solution to the twenty-one schoolgirl problem should be published, and that he does not doubt that it will be published by J. W. L. Glaisher, Editor of the 'Quarterly Journal of Mathematics'. The writer questions, however, the want of symmetry in the first seven days.

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