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From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 November 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.72
Summary:

Happy that JH may be leaving Mint and returning to scientific pursuits. HW resumed work on equations in finite differences. Hopes to reconcile discrepancy between JH's and P. S. Laplace's solutions. JH's solution renders only particular, not general, solutions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Warburton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.73
Summary:

Approves of JH sharing HW's findings. HW on excellent terms with Augustus De Morgan. Suspects two integrals exist, one real and one imaginary, for P. S. Laplace's equation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project