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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, October.—Prof. F. N. Cole gives an account of the proceedings at the seventh summer meeting of the Society, which was held in June last at Columbia University, New York City. The occasion was one of the most successful in the Society's history, having been attended by upwards of fifty members. Abstracts are given of many of the papers read. These papers will subsequently appear either in the Bulletin or in the Transactions. In connection with this gathering, the final session was devoted to an organised discussion of the following question:—What course in mathematics shail be offered to the student who desires to devote one-half, one-third or one-fourth of his undergraduate time to preparation for graduate work in mathematics? An abstract of papers read by Profs. Moore, Harkness, Osgood, Morley and Young is given by Prof. W. H. Maltbie. The discussion suggests many points of interest. Prof. (Miss) C. A. Scott furnishes an interesting article on a memoir by Riccardo de Paolis. This mathematician about twenty years since published a series of memoirs dealing with the (2, 1) transformation of the plane (cf. Attid r. Accad. dei Lincei, vol. i. (1877) pp. 511–544; vol. ii. (1878) pp. 31–50; and pp. 851–878). An exhaustive treatment is given, and Miss Scott ends thus: “the intrinsic interest of de Paolis' work is surely excuse enough for devoting some little space to it” in the Bulletin. References are freely made to the writings of other geometers on cognate lines. The “Notes” are full of the “Courses in Mathematics” for the winter semester at most, if not all, of the German Universities. Other details of interest to mathematicians fill up the remainder of the number, together with a long list of recent publications.
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Scientific Serial . Nature 63, 50 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/063050a0
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