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IT was difficult to prevent my article from running to ten times its present length, and a similar difficulty occurs in this letter. I can only state that the more I have examined the problem of stability the more I have been brought to conclusions exactly the opposite to those expressed in Mr. Dines's letter. My original view was to limit the mathematical investigation to the formation of the biquadratics and their discriminants, leaving their coefficients to be determined by experiment. In several popular articles I have advocated such experiments. Further experience has shown that there was little prospect of any conclusions of a practical character being obtained without a considerable further development of the problem from the mathematical side.
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BRYAN, G. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 83, 69 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083069a0
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