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On the Meaning of Symbols in Applied Algebra

Nature volume 56, page 588 (1897)Cite this article

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ON reading the correspondence in NATURE (vol. lv.) on this subject, my sympathies were with the physicists as typified by the Professors Lodge; but I think that the mathematicians as typified by Messrs. Jackson and Cumming have a legitimate grievance.

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MCAULAY, A. On the Meaning of Symbols in Applied Algebra. Nature 56, 588 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056588a0

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