Abstract
DR. WRIGHT is, or was until quite recently, Professor of Mathematics at Wilson College, Pennsylvania. His object is to make his countrymen acquainted with certain branches of modern mathematics, and we learn that his first venture (Tract No. 1, Determinants) has met with considerable acceptance in the American universities. M. Hermite, too, has expressed himself well pleased with the author's standpoint, “Une grande transformation s'est déjá faite et continue encore de se faire dans le domaine de l'analyse; des voies nouvelles plus fécondes, et je crois aussi plus faciles, ont été ouvertes, et c'est Lœceuvre de ceux qui veulent servir la science et leur pays de dis-cerner ce que les éléments peuvent recevoir de l'immense élaboration qui s'est accomplie depuis Gauss jusqu’à Riemann.”
Tracts relating to the Modern Higher Mathematics. Tract No. 2, Trilinear Coordinates.
By Rev. W. Wright 77 pp. (London: Messrs. C. F. Hodgson and Son, 1877.)
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Tracts relating to the Modern Higher Mathematics. Tract No. 2, Trilinear Coordinates . Nature 16, 82–83 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016082c0
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