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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1560539
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Book Information:

Author: O. Blumenthal
Title: Das Relativitätsprinzip
Additional book information: Lorentz. Einstein. Minkowski. Fortschritte der mathemtischen Wissenschaften in Monogrphien. No. 2. Leipzig und Berlin, B. G. Teubner, dritte Auflge, 1920. i + 146 pp.

Author: Hermnn Weyl
Title: Raum. Zeit. Materie
Additional book information: Berlin, Julius Springer, vierte Auflge, 1921. Mit 15 Textfiguren. ix + 300 pp.

Author: Albert Einstein
Title: Relativity. The special and the general Theory
Additional book information: Translated by Robert W. Lawson. New York, Henry Holt nd Co., 1921. Frontispiece. xiii + 168 pp.

Author: Robert D. Carmichael
Title: The Theory of Relativity
Additional book information: Mathematical Monographs, Edited by Mansfield Merriman and Robert S. Woodward, No. 12. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 2nd edition, 1920. 112 pp.

Author: Adam Angerbach
Title: Das Relativitätsprinzip
Additional book information: Leipzig und Berlin, B. G. Teubner, 1920. Mit 9 Figuren im Text. 57 pp.

Author: A. N. Whitehead
Title: The Concept of Nature
Additional book information: Tarner Lectures delivered in Trinity College, November, 1919., Cambridge, The University Press, 1920. viii + 202 pp.

Author: Door L. E. J. Brouwer
Title: Wiskunde, Waarheid, Werkelijkheid
Additional book information: Groningen, P. Noordhoff, 1919. 12 pp. + 23 pp. 29 pp.

Review Information:

Reviewer: G. D. Birkhoff
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1922), 215-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1922-03552-5