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- ↑ The full title is, "A synopsis of elementary results in pure mathematics: containing propositions, formulæ, and methods of analysis, with abridged demonstrations. Supplemented by an index to the papers on pure mathematics which are to be found in the principal journals and transactions of learned societies, both English and foreign, of the present century"
- ↑ "Review of A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure Mathematics by G. S. Carr". Science. XI (277): 251. 25 May 1888.
- ↑ A to Z of mathematicians by Tucker McElroy 2005 ISBN 0-8160-5338-3 page 221
- 1 2 Collected papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar, Godfrey Harold Hardy, P. Veṅkatesvara Seshu Aiyar 2000 ISBN 0-8218-2076-1 page xii
- ↑ Carr, G. S. (1886). A synopsis of elementary results in pure mathematics. London: F. Hodgson. pp. vi–ix.
