A STRONG committee, appointed, or rather re-appointed, for the purpose, reported last year to the British Association upon the Syllabus drawn up by the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical ...

One of the basic theorems in universal algebra is Birkhoff's variety theorem: the smallest equationally axiomatizable class containing a class K of algebras coincides with the class obtained by taking ...

About a month ago, I discussed how the axiomatic system developed by Euclid to study geometry (and later employed by giants such as Johannes Kepler and Issac Newton) became the intellectual ...

IN reference to the controversy between Mr. Spencer and his reviewer about Sir I. Newton's calling his laws of motion “axioms,” it is to be observed that there is a certain ambiguity in the word.