From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Harley
Date:
1866-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.149
Summary:
Comments on analytic symbolism in mathematics.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Comments on analytic symbolism in mathematics.
Expresses thanks for RH, in a paper on George Boole in the British Quarterly Review, giving JH credit for having published 'my introduction of the mode of separation of the symbol of differentiation from the differentiated function and executing on it operations analogous to those of common algebra.'