THERE are several excellent treatises dealing exhaustively with modern ideas of geometry and analysis, but the bulk and difficulty of these works repel those who are not specialists. The University of ...

"Cambridge: printed by J. and C.F. Clay, at the University Press" --Verso of title page. "[B]ased on a dissertation submitted at the fellowship examination at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the year ...

The paper [Tarski: Les fondements de la géométrie des corps, Annales de la Société Polonaise de Mathématiques, pp. 29-34, 1929] is in many ways remarkable. We address three historico-philosophical ...

The original formed the first part of "Festschrift zur feier der enthüllung des Gauss-Weber-denkmals in Göttingen, Grundlagen der geometrie," with the additions made by the author in the French ...

THE title of this essay suggests a number of distinct problems. We may ask what the postulates of geometry are, or we may seek the source of our knowledge of them; in the latter inquiry, again, we may ...