Abstract
CAYLEY'S often-quoted simile which compares the province of mathematics with “a tract of beautiful country seen at first in the distance, but which will bear to be rambled through and studied in every detail of hillside and valley, stream, rock, wood, and flower,” suggests a comparison of mathematical text-books with those useful works which provide information and advice for the tourist and the traveller. It may be said with truth that there is every variety, from the cheap illustrated pamphlet, designed to catch the eye of the holiday tripper in search of the picturesque, to the elaborate maps, surveys, and gazetteers which are best appreciated by the genuine explorer.
Abel's Theorem and the allied Theory, including the Theory of the Theta Functions.
By H. F. Baker Pp. xx + 684. (Cambridge: at the University Press, 1897.)
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M., G. Abel's Theorem and the allied Theory, including the Theory of the Theta Functions. Nature 56, 441–442 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056441a0
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