New Mathematics Courses Next Year

The Department of Mathematics announces several changes in courses for 1904-05. Half courses A1 and B2 are bracketed. A student may elect, in place of these, course F, or may ask leave to take Engineering 1b and 1d. Courses F, D2hf., and E1hf., are to be given by Dr. Bouton and Messrs. Coolidge and Whittemore. The following more advanced courses are offered:

Professor J. M. Peirce offers course 7a (triangular co-ordinates: algebraic plane curves; cubies); course 8 (dynamics of rigid bodies) as a full course; course 9b (a new course on the application of quaternions to the theory of enrves and surfaces); course 20a (linear associative algebra). Professor Byerly offers course 20b (a new course on recent contributions to the ellipsoidal harmonie analysis). Professor Osgood offers either course 14b2 (Galois's theory of equations) or course 17hf. (theory of functions, advanced course). Professor Bocher offers course 30 (a newly arranged full course of linear differential equations, total and partial). Dr. Bouton offers course 15 (differential equations with an introduction to Lie's theory of continuous groups). Mr. Whittemore offers course 22 (differential geometry of curves and surfaces) as a full course; course 32b1hf. (a new course on the theory of the form and the rotation of the planets). Mr. Coolidge offers course 28 (geometry of position), which has not been given since 1901-02, and course 20i (topics in higher geometry).

The Mathematical Conference is to meet monthly on a plan similar to that adopted for the current year. The courses proposed in astronomy are the same, in number and title, as those offered for the current year; but there are to be some changes in method.

For full information concerning all courses, reference should be made to the division pamphlet, which will appear shortly.