The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel4090,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel4090
Describes the problem of 'probability of three points on a plane forming an acute triangle.' Notes Augustus De Morgan has the same solution to the problem.
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library
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