A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888-1938: With Biographies and Bibliographies of the Past PresidentsThis volume outlines the history of the AMS in its first fifty years. To download free chapters of this book, click here. |
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... committee's report was ordered to be pub- lished . In 1916 it became known that , because of the admiration of one of its most loyal members , the Society would one day be able to offer a very large prize for mathematical research . By ...
... committee's report was ordered to be pub- lished . In 1916 it became known that , because of the admiration of one of its most loyal members , the Society would one day be able to offer a very large prize for mathematical research . By ...
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... Committee on Reorganization with Prof. Fiske as chairman . The Committee made report to the Council in the following August . Some of the recommendations involving finances are indicated in chapter III . The editor - in - chief of the ...
... Committee on Reorganization with Prof. Fiske as chairman . The Committee made report to the Council in the following August . Some of the recommendations involving finances are indicated in chapter III . The editor - in - chief of the ...
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... committee " to consider changes in the number of the Council , and the subject of incorporation . " The next references to incorporation appear in the minutes for 1917 , 1919 , and 1920 , when incorporation in New York seemed desirable ...
... committee " to consider changes in the number of the Council , and the subject of incorporation . " The next references to incorporation appear in the minutes for 1917 , 1919 , and 1920 , when incorporation in New York seemed desirable ...
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... committee was appointed early in 1930 to investigate the need for a journal of applied mathematics . The committee consisted of the following seven members : P. L. Alger , T. Fort , C. L. Fortescue , T. C. Fry ( chm . ) , S. Timoshenko ...
... committee was appointed early in 1930 to investigate the need for a journal of applied mathematics . The committee consisted of the following seven members : P. L. Alger , T. Fort , C. L. Fortescue , T. C. Fry ( chm . ) , S. Timoshenko ...
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... committee be approved , and that the committee be instructed to carry on negotiations looking towards the inauguration of such a journal . But economic conditions in the country led to the withdrawal of the financial support which the ...
... committee be approved , and that the committee be instructed to carry on negotiations looking towards the inauguration of such a journal . But economic conditions in the country led to the withdrawal of the financial support which the ...
Contents
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FINANCIAL AFFAIRS SPECIAL FUNDS | 26 |
THE BULLETIN | 46 |
THE TRANSACTIONS | 54 |
COLLOQUIUM LECTURES AND COLLOQUIUM PUBLICATIONS | 64 |
THE CHICAGO GROUP AND THE CHICAGO SECTION | 72 |
ANNUAL MEETINGS | 80 |
SUMMER MEETINGS | 83 |
JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS LECTURESHIP | 86 |
THE LIBRARY | 88 |
THE COUNCIL AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES | 94 |
THE SECRETARIES | 97 |
THE PRESIDENTS | 104 |
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