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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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Contents of Volume 4, Number 5
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The fourth annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society
F. N. Cole PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1898), 175-182
The Evanston meeting of the Chicago Section
Thomas F. Holgate PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1898), 182-187
The philosophy of hyperspace
Simon Newcomb PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1898), 187-195
Orthogonal group in a Galois field
L. E. Dickson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1898), 196-200
Notes
PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1898), 239-241
New publications
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1898), 242-246

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

Lehrbuch der Algebra, by Heinrich Weber.
Reviewer: James Pierpont
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1898), 200-234
Analytic Geometry for Technical Schools and Colleges, by P. A. Lambert.
Reviewer: Isabel Maddison
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1898), 234-235
Funfstellige Tafeln und Gegentafeln für logarithmisches und trigonometrisches Rechnen, by Hermann Schubert.
Tafeln zur Berechnung der reellen Wurzeln sämtlicher trinomischer Gleichungen, by S. Gundelfinger.
Reviewer: Ernest W. Brown
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1898), 236-237
Easy Lessons in the Differential Calculus, by Richard A. Proctor.
A Primer of the Calculus, by E. Sherman Gould.
A Brief Introduction to the Infinitesimal Calculus, by Irving Fisher.
Reviewer: Thomas S. Fiske
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (1898), 237-238