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Contents of Volume 44, Number 5
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Miscellaneous back pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 44, Number 5 (1938)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938)
Miscellaneous front pages, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 44, Number 5 (1938)
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938)
The February meeting in New York
T. R. Hollcroft PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 305-308
Notes
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 322-327
Abstracts of papers
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 328-356
New publications
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 357-360

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

Geometrische Optik, by C. Carathéodory.
Reviewer: J. P. C. Southall
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 309-311
Théorie Générale des Fonctionnelles., by Vito Volterra and Joseph Pérès.
Reviewer: M. R. Hestenes
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 311-312
Theorie der Gruppen von Endlicher Ordnung, by Andreas Speiser.
Reviewer: Marshall Hall
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 313-314
La Réduction des Séries Alternées Divergentes et ses Applications, by J. Ser.
Séries Lacunaires, by S. Mandelbrojt.
Reviewer: C. N. Moore
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 313
Differential Systems, by J. M. Thomas.
Reviewer: Salomon Bochner
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 314-315
Integralgleichungen, by G. Hamel.
Reviewer: W. R. Longley
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 315-316
A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies with an Introduction to the Problem of Three Bodies, by E. T. Whittaker.
Reviewer: H. E. Buchanan
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 316
Teoria Dinamica dei Regimi Fluidi Turbolenti, by G. D. Mattioli.
Reviewer: Harry Bateman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 316
Einführung in die mathematische Logik und in die Methodologie der Mathematik, by Alfred Tarski.
Reviewer: W. V. Quine
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 317-318
Projektive Geometrie, by Karl Doehlemann.
Reviewer: B. C. Patterson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 318-319
Quantentheorie, by Clemens Schaefer.
Reviewer: H. P. Robertson
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 319-320
Origins of Clerk Maxwell's Electric Ideas as Described in Familiar Letters to William Thomson, by Joseph Larmor.
Reviewer: Leigh Page
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 320
Moderne Algebra, by B. L. Van der Waerden.
Reviewer: Oystein Ore
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 320
Geometrical Optics, An Introduction to Hamilton's Method, by J. L. Synge.
Reviewer: Max Herzberger
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1938), 321