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567:"Zonal Harmonics of High Order in Terms of Bessel Functions"
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436:Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
298:Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation
453:"The Roots of the Neumann and Bessel Functions"
347:measure (needed in turn for the computation of
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357:confluent hypergeometric functions
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974:Alumni of the University of Leeds
752:Comrie, L. J. (6 November 1937).
730:"Biography: John Robinson Airey"
407:constructed in the UK after the
215:From 1896 Airey taught maths at
813:"Obituary: John Robinson Airey"
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754:"Obituary: Dr. J. R. Airey"
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198:Leeds Central High School
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852:Archibald, R.C. (1948).
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349:transcendental functions
329:hypergeometric functions
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565:—— (1919).
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451:Airey, John R. (1910).
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874:A Motif of Mathematics
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