Scientific Serials

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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, March.—Prof. Pierpont, in an article on mathematical instruction in France, gives an account of the way in which France is educating students who wish to become mathematicians, and indicates rapidly what positions a talented young man may hope to reach, how he attains them, and what his duties are in the various stages of his progress. He subsequently calls attention to the advantages which Americans can enjoy in studying mathematics in France, particularly in Paris. The article should be useful.—Prof. Ernest W. Brown reviews M. Poincaré's “Cinématique et Mécanismes, Potentiel et Mécanique des Fluides,” the Annuaire of the Bureau des Longitudes for 1900, and the “Elements of Precise Surveying and Geodesy,” by Mansfield Merriman.—Prof. F. Morley gives a sketch of E. Duporcq's “Premiers principes de Géométrie Moderne,” a work to give students, who have some acquaintance with analytic geometry, a liking for the purely geometric point of view.—Prof. F. Cajori briefly notices “Opinions et curiosités touchant la Mathématique d'après les ouvrages Français des xvie, xviie, et xviiie siècles,” by G. Maupin (a work, apparently, which merits a place in a modern “Budget of Paradoxes”), and “La Mathématique: Philosophie, Enseignement,” by C. A. Laisant.—The number closes with the usual items of “Notes” and “Publications.”