[addend:240]Page addend:240. G. Eneström argues that Taylor and not Nicole is the real inventor of finite differences. See Biblioth. Math., 1893, p. 91.
[addend:250]Page addend:250. An earlier publication in which is designated by , is W. Jones's Synopsis palmariorum matheseos, London, 1706, p. 243, 263 et seq. See Biblioth. Math., 1894, p. 106.
[addend:335]Page addend:335. Before Gauss a theorem on convergence, usually attributed to Cauchy, was given by Maclaurin (Fluxions, § 350). A rule of convergence was deduced also by Stirling. See Bull. N. Y. Math. Soc., Vol. III., p. 186.
[addend:358]Page addend:358. The surface of a solid with holes was considered before Clifford by Tonelli, and was probably used by Riemann himself. See Math. Annalen, Vol. 45, p. 142.
[addend:361]Page addend:361. As early as 1835, Lobachevsky showed in a memoir the necessity of distinguishing between continuity and differentiability. See G. B. Halsted's transl. of A. Vasiliev's Address on Lobachevsky, p. 23.
Recent deaths. Johann Rudolf Wolf, Dec. 6, 1893; Heinrich Hertz, Jan. 1, 1894; Eugène Catalan, Feb. 14, 1894; Hermann von Helmholtz, Sept. 8, 1894; Arthur Cayley, Jan. 26, 1895.
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