MODERN MATHEMATICS

TITLES AND AUTHORS

I. THE FOUNDATIONS OF GEOMETRY.

By OSWALD VEBLEN, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics in Princeton University.

II. MODERN PURE GEOMETRY.

By THOMAS F. HOLGATE, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of
Mathematics in Northwestern University.

III. NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY.

By FREDERICK S. WOODS, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

IV. THE FUNDAMENTAL PROPOSITIONS OF ALGEBRA. By EDWARD V. HUNTINGTON, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Mathematics in Harvard University.

V. THE ALGEBRAIC EQUATION.

By G. A. MILLER, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics in the University of Illinois.

VI. THE FUNCTION CONCEPT AND THE FUNDAMENTAL NOTIONS OF THE CALCULUS.

By GILBERT AMES BLISS, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Universtiy of Chicago.

VII. THE THEORY OF NUMBERS.

By J. W. A. YOUNG, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the
Pedagogy of Mathematics in the University of
Chicago.

VIII. CONSTRUCTIONS WITH RULER AND COMPASSES;
REGULAR POLYGONS.

By L. E. DICKSON, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics in the University of Chicago.

IX. THE HISTORY AND TRANSCENDENCE OF л.

By DAVID EUGENE SMITH, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Mathematics in Teachers College, Columbia University.

ON TOPICS OF

MODERN MATHEMATICS

RELEVANT TO THE ELEMENTARY FIELD

EDITED BY

J. W. A. YOUNG

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
LONDON, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA

1911