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THE programme of scientific activity submitted JL by the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, Paris, to the International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation at its plenary meeting in July last contained a suggestion that a study meeting on “The Fundamental Principles and Method of the Mathematical Sciences” might usefully be convened. This is the first time that the Institute has organized a study committee to discuss a mathematical subject. The scientific meetings held so far had been devoted to biological questions (study and research on phytohormones), physico-chemical questions (physico-chemical methods of measuring the molecular and atomic weights of gases), and physical questions (new theories of physics). The programme already approved by the Committee on Intellectual Co-operation provides for the organization of meetings in the spheres of mathematics (fundamental principles and method of the mathematical sciences, and applications of probability calculations), physics (magnetism, and the philosophical consequences of new theories in physics), and biology (ionizing radiation measurements, and genetic and cytological nomenclature and terminology).
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Fundamental Principles and Method of the Mathematical Sciences. Nature 143, 302–303 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143302a0
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