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ON Christmas Day of last year, Major Percy Alexander MacMahon died at Bournemouth. By his death, the science of pure mathematics has lost a distinguished devotee with a striking individuality. Not that MacMahon was solely a scientific investigator. He had been a soldier; he retained the title of his military rank to the end of his days. He bad been engaged in teaching for not a few years; his powers of exposition were marked by a clear directness that could be envied. He had been a Civil Servant; for fourteen years, until his retirement in 1920 under the age-limit, he was Deputy Warden of the Standards of the Board of Trade. But throughout all the stages in his varied avocations, MacMahon achieved and maintained a high reputation as a pure mathematician.
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F., A. Major P. A. MacMahon, F.R.S. Nature 125, 243–245 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125243a0
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