Science Progress Vol. 14 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Science Progress Vol. 14<br><br>AT the meeting of the American Mathematical Society on December 27 and 28 1918 it was voted that a committee of three should be appointed to report to the Council at the April meeting on steps which should be taken to organise or pro mote the publication in America or elsewhere of an adequate and comprehensive survey of the current mathematical litera ture of the world. The committee appointed was E. W. Brown G. A. Miller and R. C. Archibald (amer. Math. Monthly 1919 26 At this moment the present quarterly account of recent work in mathematics is the only one in English which aims at any high degree of completeness: it is not creditable to the Governments and scientific institutions of English-speaking countries that this work''should have been left to private endeavour (cf. Science progress 1917 11 686 - 90)<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.