The Mathematical and Other Writings of Robert Leslie Ellis (Classic Reprint)

Having undertaken with your sanction the publication of the writings of your lamented brother in a collected form, I may be permitted to address to you a few observations on the principles by which I have been guided in the fulfilment of an act of piety to the memory of a friend of many years, whom I shall ever remember with affection and veneration. The greater part of the writings contained in this volume had previously appeared inS cientific Journals, and Keports, some few in Educational Treatises. I have had no scruple whatever in reprinting these works, since their publication had already taken place by the authors own act or permission. The question of the publication of manuscripts presented to my mind greater difficulty. During his long years of suffering he was in the habit of dictating to his friends various speculations in adaptation to their different tastes and pursuits, evidently for the most part not intended for the press. A great many mathematical investigations, which may be described as interesting problems, communicated to me on numerous occasions either by dictation or by letter, are in my possession. Out of these manuscripts I have ventured to publish only two, the one on the [R etardation of Sunrise, and the other a newt Solution of a Problem in the First Book of Newton sP
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