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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Contents of Volume 21, Number 4
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The October meeting of the American Mathematical Society
F. N. Cole PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 161-165
The twenty-sixth regular meeting of the San Francisco Section
Thomas Buck PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 165-167
Modular invariant processes
O. E. Glenn PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 167-173
Invariants, seminvariants, and covariants of the ternary and quaternary quadratic form modulo 2
L. E. Dickson PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 174-179
The converse of the Heine-Borel theorem in a Riesz domain
E. W. Chittenden PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 179-183
Complete existential theory of Sheffer’s postulates for Boolean algebras
L. L. Dines PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 183-188
On the characteristics of the principal manuals of elementary geometry published in Italy in the course of the last fifty years
Mario Vecchi PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 188-191
Correction
R. D. Carmichael PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 206-207
Note on “The discovery of inversion.”
Arnold Emch PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 206
Notes
PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 207-209
New publications
PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 210-216

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

Sur quelques Progrès récents de la Physique mathématique, by Vito Volterra.
Drei Vorlesungen über neuere Fortschritte der mathematischen Physik, by Vito Volterra.
Leçons sur l'Intégration des Equations différentielles aux Dérivées partielles, by Vito Volterra.
Reviewer: James Byrnie Shaw
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 192-199
Mysticism in Mathematics, by Hastings Berkeley.
Reviewer: Cassius J. Keyser
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 199-200
Exercices de Géométrie analytique, by P. Aubert and G. Papelier.
Reviewer: F. M. Morgan
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 201
Orders of Infinity. The “Infinitärcalcül” of Paul Du Bois-Reymond, by G. H. Hardy.
Reviewer: Wallie Abraham Hurwitz
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 201-202
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals, by David Eugene Smith and Louis Charles Karpinski.
Reviewer: J. V. McKelvey
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 202-203
Vorlesungen über darstellende Geometrie,, by F. v. Dalwigk.
Reviewer: J. V. McKelvey
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 203
Darstellende Geometrie, by Th. Schmid.
Reviewer: Virgil Snyder
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 204-205
Die graphische Darstellung, by Felix Auerbach.
Reviewer: Virgil Snyder
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 205
Differential- und Integralrechnung. Erster Band: Differentialrechnung, by Fr. W. Meyer.
Reviewer: Virgil Snyder
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (1915), 206