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American Journal of Mathematics, vol. xv. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, January, 1893).—The piéce de résistance of this number is a memoir by Prof. Cayley on symmetric functions and seminvariants (pp. 1-74), in which the author further develops the theory of seminvariants, and in connection therewith is led to some investigations on symmetric functions. The subject is treated with characteristic ability and affords ample evidence of the writer's recovery from his recent serious illness. Prof. Cayley also contributes some tables of pure reciprocants to the weight S (pp. 75-77). Two short notes follow on the differential equation, by Maxime Bôher (pp. 78-83), and geometrical illustrations of some theorems in number by Ellery W. Davis (pp. 84-90, with diagram). M. Halphen is the mathematician whose portrait is given with this opening number.
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Scientific Serials. Nature 47, 620–621 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047620b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/047620b0