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MAY I correct Prof. Chapman on two minor points (NATURE, 150, 49 ; 1942)? Forsyth's Calcutta lectures, published in 1914, were on the theory of functions of two complex variables. His treatise on differential geometry, published in 1912, that is, before he went to Calcutta, is described in the preface as consisting of the substance of lectures delivered during his tenure of the Sadlerian professorship at Cambridge. In his retirement Forsyth produced, not two treatises, but three, the third, which appeared in two volumes in 1935 with the somewhat misleading title of “Intrinsic Geometry of Ideal Space”, being an extension to n dimensions of the analysis which for three dimensions and for four had been developed in earlier works.
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NEVILLE, E. Prof. A. R. Forsyth. Nature 150, 236 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150236b0
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