Robert Murphy: Mathematician and Physicist - Bibliography

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[Murphy 1824] Murphy, R. (1824). Refutation of a Pamphlet Written by the Rev. John Mackey Entitled “A Method of Making a Cube a Double of a Cube, Founded on the Principles of Elementary Geometry,” wherein His Principles Are Proved Erroneous and the Required Solution Not Yet Obtained. Mallow: John Haynes, Printer, Spa-Walk. The authors have provided their transcription of this work, with commentary, as an appendix available here.

[Murphy 1830] Murphy, R. (1830). “On the General Properties of Definite Integrals,” Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 3, 429-443. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1831] Murphy, R. (1831). “On the Resolution of Algebraical Equations,” Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 4, 126-153. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1832a] Murphy, R. (1832). “On Elimination between an Indefinite Number of Unknown Quantities,” Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 5, 65-75. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1832b] Murphy, R. (1832). “First Memoir on the Inverse Method of Definite Integrals, with Physical Applications,” Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 4, 353-408. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1833a] Murphy, R. (1833). Elementary Principles of the Theories of Electricity, Heat, and Molecular Actions. Part I on Electricity. Cambridge: Pitt Press. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1833b] Murphy, R. (1833). “On the Existence of Real or Imaginary Root to Any Equation,” Philosophical Magazine, 2, 60-61. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1833c] Murphy, R. (1833). “On the Real Functions of Imaginary Quantities,” Philosophical Magazine, 2, 287-288. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1833d] Murphy, R. (1833). “On the Mathematical Laws of Electrical Influence,” Philosophical Magazine, 2, 350-351. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1833e] Murphy, R. (1833). “Further Development of the Existence of a Real or Imaginary Root to Any Equation,” Philosophical Magazine, 2, 220-221. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1833f] Murphy, R. (1833). “Second Memoir on the Inverse Method of Definite Integrals, with Physical Applications,” Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 5, 113-148. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1835b] Murphy, R. (1835). “Third Memoir on the Inverse Method of Definite Integrals, with Physical Applications,” Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 5, 315-393. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1835a] Murphy, R. (1835). “On the Resolution of Equations in Finite Differences,” Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 6, 92- 106. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1837a] Murphy, R. (1837). “Analysis of the Roots of Equations,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 127, 161-178. (Available on JSTOR.)

[Murphy 1837b] Murphy, R. (1837). “First Memoir on the Theory of Analytic Operations,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 127, 179-210. (Available on JSTOR.)

[Murphy 1837c] Murphy, R. (1837). “On a New Theorem in Analysis,” Philosophical Magazine, 10, 28-32. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1837d] Murphy, R. (1837). “On the Composition of Two Rectangular Forces Acting on a Point,” Philosophical Magazine, 10, 105-108. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1837e] Murphy, R. (1837). “Remark on an Error of Fourier in his ‘Analyse des équations,” Philosophical Magazine, 10, 38-40. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1839] Murphy, R. (1839). A Treatise on the Theory of Algebraical Equations. London: The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1841a] Murphy, R. (1841). “Remark on Primitive Radices’,” Philosophical Magazine, 19, 369. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1841b] Murphy, R. (1841). “Calculations of Logarithms by Means of Algebraic Fractions,” Philosophical Magazine, 18, 479-480. (Available on Google Books.)

[Murphy 1842] Murphy, R. (1842). “On Atmospheric Refraction,” Philosophical Magazine, 20, 310-312. (Available on Google Books.)

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[Peacock 1830] Peacock, G. (1830). A Treatise on Algebra. London: Cambridge.

[Petrova 1978] Petrova, S. S. (1978). “The Origin of the Linear Operator Theory in the Works of Servois and Murphy,” History and Methodology of the Natural Sciences, 20, 122-128. (Unpublished translation by Valery Krupkin.)

[Robertson 1848] Robertson, J. C. (Ed.) (1848). “Robert Murphy, The Mathematician,” The Mechanics’ Magazine, London: Robertson and Co., XLIX. 354-356.

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