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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, March.—Prof. T. F. Holgate reports the December meeting of the Chicago section of the Society (December 27 and 28, 1900), and gives abstracts of several of the twenty-two papers which were read. In addition there is printed a paper by Prof. Hathaway on pure mathematics for engineering students, which was followed by an interesting discussion. The subject was treated under the heads (1) its utility; (2) methods of instruction; (3) the course; and (4) the instructor.—A paper read by Prof. Newson, at the February meeting, on indirect circular transformations and mixed groups, is supplementary to a paper entitled “Continuous Groups of Circular Transformations” (which appeared in the Bulletin for December, 1897), and deals with indirect circular transformations and the mixed groups obtained by combining these with the direct transformations. Prof. E. W. Brown reviews, at some length, the scientific papers of J. Couch Adams and the lectures on the Lunar theory, (vol. ii. Parts 1 and 2), edited by Profs. R. A. Sampson and W. G. Adams. Then follows, in English, the notice on M. Hermite, by M. C. Jordan, an address delivered at the meeting of the Paris Academy, of Sciences, January 21, 1901.—The notes, as usual, cover a wide ground, and there is the usual portion appropriated to new publications.
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Scientific Serial . Nature 63, 577 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063577c0
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