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Sylvester’s Chemico-Algebraic Theory A Partial Anticipation of Modern Quantum Chemistry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

J S. Griffith
J S. Griffith*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Manchester College of Science and Technology
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Extract

In 1877, the English mathematician J J. Sylvester (1) announced the discovery of a rather complete formal analogy between the mathematical theory of the invariants and covariants of binary quantics and the chemical theory of valency as it then stood.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 48 , Issue 363 , February 1964 , pp. 57 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1964

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