Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 5

Front Cover
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 264 - Historical and methodological remarks abound, and are so woven together with the mathematical material proper, and the whole is so vivified by the clear and almost chatty style of the author as to give the lectures a charm for the readers not often to be found in mathematical works.
Page 56 - Applied Mechanics. A Treatise for the Use of students who have time to work experimental, numerical, and graphical exercises illustrating the subject.
Page 112 - CROSSKEY, LR Elementary Perspective: Arranged to meet the requirements of Architects and Draughtsmen, and of Art Students preparing for the elementary examination of the Science and Art Department, South Kensington. With numerous full-page plates and diagrams. 8vo, cloth, illustrated . . $1 .00 and THAW, J.
Page 46 - Each essay must be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name and address of the author and bearing on the outside the motto or device which is inscribed upon the essay.
Page 317 - International Association for Promoting the Study of Quaternions and Allied Systems of Mathematics.
Page 268 - This is another factor which may have caused local cultivation of grain to increase in the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century.
Page 160 - Medium 8vo. , 2u. net. CALCULATIONS IN HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING: a Practical Text-Book for the use of Students, Draughtsmen and Engineers. By T. CLAXTON FIDLER, M.Inst.CE Part I.
Page 326 - ... by GB Halsted; and notes and problems in elementary mathematics.] ') The numbers 1 — 3 of vol. VI have allready been analized Rev. sem. VII 2, p. 4, line 3 — 5.
Page 367 - ... Sylow followed by Lie had revealed to him all the importance of the theory of substitutions; the two friends studied this theory in the great treatise of C. Jordan; they were fully conscio'us of the important role it was called on to play in so many branches of mathematical science where it had not yet been applied. They have both had the good fortune to contribute by their works to impress upon mathematical studies the direction which to them appeared the best. In 1870, Sophus Lie presented...
Page 267 - Leo XIII. has taken the greatest interest in the discovery, and has ordered the manuscript to be published in an elegant edition at the expense of the Vatican. The discovery of this treatise, the original of which...

Bibliographic information