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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 27, Number 9
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 27, Number 9-10 (1921)
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Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 27, Number 9-10 (1921)
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The April meeting of the American Mathematical Society
R. G. Richardson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 389-400
The Easter meeting of the Society at Chicago
Arnold Dresden PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 401-410
The April meeting of the San Francisco Section
B. A. Bernstein PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 411-414
The general theory of approximation by polynomials and trigonometric sums
Dunham Jackson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 415-431
The Einstein solar field
Luther Pfahler Eisenhart PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 432-434
A covariant of three circles
A. B. Coble PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 434-437
On skew parabolas
Mary F. Curtis PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 437-438
The dispersion of observations
Julian Lowell Coolidge PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 439-442
The isomorphisms of complex algebra
Norbert Wiener PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 443-445
On the generalization of certain fundamental formulas of the mathematical theory of finance
C. H. Forsyth PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 446-452
The spread of Newtonian and Leibnizian notations of the calculus
Florian Cajori PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 453-458
Group theory reviews
G. A. Miller PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 459-462
Errata
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 487
Notes
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 488-495
New publications
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 496-499
Thirtieth annual list of papers
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 500-507
Index of volume XXVII
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 508-516

Book Reviews
Book reviews do not contain an abstract. You may download each review in this issue using the links below.

Einführung in die Vektoranalysis, mit Anwendungen auf die mathematische Physik, by R. Gans.
Elements of Vector Algebra, by L. Silberstein.
Vektoranalysis, by C. Runge.
Précis de Calcul géométrique, by R. Leveugle.
Reviewer: James Byrnie Shaw
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 463-465
Oeuvres de G. H. Halphen.
Reviewer: R. D. Carmichael
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 466-468
A History of the Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions in Great Britain from Newton to Woodhouse, by Florian Cajori.
Reviewer: David Eugene Smith
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 468-470
Cours de Cinématique théorique, by H. Lacaze.
Reviewer: James Byrnie Shaw
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 470
Some famous problems of the theory of numbers and in particular Waring's problem, by G. H. Hardy.
Reviewer: R. D. Carmichael
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 471-475
Statics, including Hydrostatics and the Elements of the Theory of Elasticity, by Horace Lamb.
Reviewer: E. B. Wilson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 475-477
Principes usuels de Nomographie avec applications à divers problèmes concernant l'artillerie et l'aviation, by Maurice d'Ocagne.
Reviewer: C. L. E. Moore
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 477-478
Mathematische Streifzüge durch die Geschichte der Astronomie, by P. Kirchberger.
Reviewer: David Eugene Smith
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 479-480
Natural Tangents, by Emma Gifford.
Reviewer: David Eugene Smith
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 480
Oeuvres Complètes de Cristiaan Huygens.
Reviewer: H. L. Rietz
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 481-482
Dynamics of the Airplane, by K. P. Williams.
Reviewer: C. L. E. Moore
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 483
The Sumario Compendioso of Brother Juan Diez: The Earliest Mathematical Work of the New World, by David Eugene Smith.
Reviewer: J. W. Young
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 484
Theoretische Arithmetik, by Otto Stolz and J. A. Gmeiner.
Reviewer: R. D. Carmichael
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 485
Advanced Lecture Notes on Light, by J. R. Eccles.
Reviewer: E. B. Wilson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 485-486
Materialien für eine wissenschaftliche Biographie von Gauss, by F. Klein, M. Brendel and L. Schlesinger.
Reviewer: Howard H. Mitchell
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1921), 486-487