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THIS book, which is an excellent specimen of mathematical printing, constitutes vol. i. of “Papers published by the American Mathematical Society.” The 400 pages contain thirty-nine papers. German and American mathematicians are the largest contributors; there are a few pages from France, Italy, Austria and Russia also, but the mathematicians of England are not represented. Papers of great interest are given by Dr. Schonflies, “Gruppentheorie und Krystallographie” by Dr. Heinrich Burkhardt, “Ueber einige mathematische Resultate neuerer astronomischer Unsuchungen, insbesondere iiber irreguliire Integrate linearer Differentialgleichungen” by M. Maurice d'Ocagne, “Nomographie: sur les equations representables par trois systemes rectiligues de points isoplcthes” ; by E. H. Moore, “A doubly infinite system of simple groups.” Prof. Felix Klein, of Gottingen, whose work at the Congress has been already published in a separate volume, is only represented here by two short communications, one on “The Present State of Mathematics,” the other on “The Development of the Theory of Groups during the last Twenty Years.” They are of the nature of lightning sketches by a master hand.
Mathematical Papers read at the International Mathematical Congress held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
(New York: Macmillan and Co.)
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Mathematical Papers read at the International Mathematical Congress held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Nature 54, 170 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054170b0
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