Excerpt from Science Progress, Vol. 14 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) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.