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Bulletin of the Amerian Mathematical Society, June.—Prof. F. N. Cole reports the April meeting of the Society held in New York City, and summarises the thirteen papers which were contributed. He also indicates where the papers themselves may be or will be found.—Surfaces of revolution in the theory of Lamé's products is a paper which was read by Dr. Safford at the February meeting. It is a review of an article by Haentzschel (reduction der Potentialgleichung), in which that writer criticises results obtained by Wangerin in the Berliner Monats-berichte (February 1878). Dr. Safford agrees with Wangerin in the results he gets, and so, in his opinion, invalidates Haentzschel's criticisms. —The next article is an enthusiastic review by Mr. Arthur Berry of Picard's “Théoriedes Functions Aigébriques de deux Variables indépendantes.”—Another review is one of Jules Tannery's “Leçons d'Arithmétique théorique et pratique,” by Prof. J. Pierpont. This latter is pronounced to be the first work on arithmetic which the reviewer has seen which, while intended entirely for secondary instruction, is written in accordance with the new ideas regarding the number concept and the need of rigour. Thus it is a pioneer of a revolution in secondary instruction.—Dr. L: E. Dickson contributes a note on Page's ordinary differential equations (cf. 2. review of this by Prof. Lovett in the Bulletin, April 1898).—The usual notes and new publications close the number.
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Scientific Serials. Nature 60, 263 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060263b0
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