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American Journal of Mathematics, vol. xix. No. 2 (April 1897).—On the most perfect forms of magic squares, with methods for their production, is an interesting paper on these squares by Dr. E. McClintock, which treats the subject in a somewhat novel manner. As it was read before the American Mathematical Society so long ago as April 25, 1896, the references to the Rev. A. H. Frost's work on similar lines make no allusion to the recent memoir by this gentleman (the construction of Nasik squares of any order), which was read before the London Mathematical Society, June 11, 1896, and, in its printed form, occupied pp. 487–518 of vol. xxvii. of the Society's Proceedings. Dr. McClintock refers to the earlier papers in the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (vol. vii. and xv.).—Dr. Chree contributes a complementary paper to his article in vol. xvi. Its title is “Isotropic elastic solids of nearly spherical form.” The method of the two papers is practically the same, but the author states the differences in detail to be considerable. His principal object is to find what may be regarded as the change in pitch due to a small change in the shape of the surface; the result shows what effect an absence of perfect sphericity has on the frequency of vibrations.—Non-uniform convergence and the integration of series, term by term, by W. F. Osgood, is a paper which was read at the August (1896) meeting of the American Mathematical Society. The geometrical method for the study of uniform convergence, set forth in the present article, was treated at some length in a paper by the same writer, which we have noted in our abstract of the Society's Bulletin (vol. iii. pp. 59–86) for November 1896.—Two notelets close the number: viz. a note on the factors of composition of a group, by Ellery W. Davis, and simple proof of a fundamental theorem in the theory of functions, by R. D. Bohannan.—A loose sheet gives a very brief outline of Sylvester's career and work. Prof. Sylvester was the principal founder of the American Journal of Mathematics (in 1877), and he was the principal editor until his departure from America in December 1883. He contributed to its pages some fifty papers in all.
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Scientific Serials. Nature 56, 44–45 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056044a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/056044a0