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Note on Newton's Theorem of Symmetric Functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Charles Tweedie
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The proofs usually given that Sn = αn + βn + … can be expressed in terms of the elementary symmetric functions ∑α, ∑αβ, etc., though simple, are not in general elementary. The following demonstration will, I think, be found to combine these two qualities.

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 22 , February 1903 , pp. 90 - 91
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