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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 5, Number 8
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The April meeting of the Chicago Section
Thomas F. Holgate PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1899), 379-385
An elementary proof that Bessel’s functions of the zeroth order have an infinite number of real roots
Maxime Bôcher PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1899), 385-388
A generalization of Appell’s factorial functions
E. J. Wilczynski PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1899), 388-394
On the arithmetization of mathematics
James Pierpont PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1899), 394-406
Notes
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1899), 413-419
New publications
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1899), 419-422

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

The Tides and Kindred Phenomena of the Solar System, by George Howard Darwin.
Leçons sur la Théorie des Marées, by Maurice Lévy.
Reviewer: Ernest W. Brown
Review information PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 5 (1899), 406-413