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Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, vol. iii. No. 1. (New York: Macmillan, October, 1893.)—A congress of mathematics and astronomy was opened at Chicago on August 21, and this number commences with Dr. Felix Klein's inaugural address. It is brief but not witty, and merely sketches some of the papers to be read, and closes with the remark that mathematicians must go farther than to form “mathematical societies.” “They must form international unions, and I trust that this present congress at Chicago will be a step in that direction.” Prof. T. H. Safford narrates briefly, in his remarks on “instruction in mathematics in the United States,” the history of the noteworthy rise in the general standard of mathematical teaching within the last few years. Prof. Ellery Davis reviews four recent geometries, viz. those by Hopkins, Dupuis, W. B. Smith, and Halsted. Prof. Tyler analyses the papers read at the Chicago congress, and Prof. Waldo gives a brief account of the American Association meeting at Madison on August 16–23. Three pages of notes of mathematical doings, and eight pages of new publications follow. This last feature of the Bulletin is a very prominent and highly valuable one.
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Scientific Serials. Nature 49, 71 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/049071a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/049071a0