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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, December 1898.—At the October meeting of the Society seven papers were communicated. Abstracts of the papers not to be published in the Bulletin are given.—Prof. Woodward's paper, on the mutual gravitational attraction of two bodies whose mass distributions are symmetrical with respect to the same axis, deals with certain problems in the theory of Attraction which, although fairly accessible to treatment, seem to have been overlooked (some of the equations occur in Todhunter, “History of the Theories of Attraction and Figure of the Earth,” vol. ii. p. 102).—A paper by Prof. Roe, on symmetric functions, considers the matter from two standpoints. The first part deals with the functions as a whole, and is mainly critical and historical.
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Scientific Serials. Nature 59, 261–262 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059261b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/059261b0