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AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Notices AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Notices Edited by J. H. CURTiss Issue No. 15 February 1956 Contents MEETINGS Calendar of Meetings .......................................................................... 2 Program of the February Meeting in New York................................ 3 NEWS ITEMS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ................................................... 11 PERSONAL ITEMS .................................................................................... 16 NEW PUBLICATIONS ................................................................................ 20 CATALOGUE OF LECTURE NOTES: Supplement No.1 ........................ 24 J\1EMORANDUM TO MEMBERS Directory Changes ................................................................................ 27 Published by the Society MENASHA, WISCONSIN, AND PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND Printed in the United States of America CALEHDAR OF MEETIHGS Note: This Calendar lists all of the meetings which have been ap­ proved by the Council up to the date at which this issue of the Notices was sent to press. The meeting dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change. This is particularly true of the meetings to which no numbers have yet been assigned. Meet­ Deadline ing Date Place for No. Abstracts 523 April 12-14, 1956 Chicago, I11inois February 28 524 April 20-21, 1956 New York, New York February 28 525 April 28, 1956 Monterey, California ?I larch 6 August 20-25, 1956 Seattle, Washington (61st Summer Meeting) November 30-December 1, 1956 Evanston, Illinois December 27-29, 1956 Rochester, New York (63rd Annual Meeting) November 28-29, 1958 Evanston, Illinois The Notices of the American Mathematical Society is published seven times a year, in Februaey, April, June, August, October, November, and December. In­ quiries should be addressed to the American Mathematical Society, 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wis .. or 80 Waterman Street, Providence 6, R.I. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Menasha, Wisconsin. Authori­ zation is granted under the authority of the act of August 24, 1912, as amended by the act of August 4, 1947 (Sec. 34.21, P. L. & R.). Accepted for mailing at the special rate of postage provided for in section 34.40, paragraph (d). Items for Notes should be sent toN otices of the American Mathematical Society, 80 Waterman Street, Providence 6, R.I. 2 FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-SECOND MEETING New York, New York February 25, 1956 PROGRAM The five hundred rwenty-second meeting of the American Mathemati· cal Society will be held at Hunter College in New York City on Satur­ day, February 25, 1956. Professor Everett Pitcher of Lehigh University will deliver an ad­ dress on Inequalities of critical point theory in Room 300 at 2:00 P.M. by invitation of the Committee to Select Hour Speakers for Eastern Sec­ tional Meetings. Sessions for contributed papers will be held at 10:00 A.M. and at 3:15P.M. in Rooms 300, 302, and 306. Hunter College is on Park Avenue berween 68th and 69th Streets. It can be reached most readily by means of the Lexington Avenue sub­ way. Guests arriving on Saturday are asked to use the 69th Street en­ trance. The meeting rooms are on the third floor at the Park Avenue end of the building. A registration desk will be found near the meeting rooms. PROGRAM OF THE SESSIONS (Time limit for each contributed paper, 10 minutes) SATURDAY, 10:00 A.M. Session on Analysis, Room 300 (1) Functions integrable with respect to a finitely additive measure Professor Solomon Leader, Rutgers University (2) A characterization of the Lebesgue area Dr. C. J. Neugebauer, Purdue University (3) An axiomatization for rings of operators Dr. Jacob Feldman, Institute for Advanced Study 3 (4) Holomorphic functionals and complex convexity in Banach spaces Dr. H. J. Bremermann, Institute for Advanced Study (Introduced by Professor R. D. Schafer) (5) Topologies defined by transformations. Preliminary report Professor R. C. Buck, University of Wisconsin (6) On reducing subspaces and unitary invariants of certain Volter­ ra operators Professor G. K. Kalisch, University of Minnesota and Insti­ tute for Advanced Study (7) An optimal gap theorem Dr. L. A. Rubel, Cornell University (8) Applications of a certain measure of non-analyticity Dr. M. A. Martino, National Security Agency, Washington, D. C. (9) A characteristic property of polynomials Professor A. 0. Huber, University of Maryland (10) Polynomials with prescribed values at critical points Professor Joseph Andrushkiw, Seton Hall University Session on Applied Mathematics, Room 306 (11) A compact method for solving a system of linear equations of any condition Professor I. F. Ritter, New York University (12) Axiomatics of the binocular visual geometry Professor A. A. Blank, University of Tennessee (13) On the characteristic values of a complex quadratic form Professor Imanuel Marx, University of Michigan (14) On the existence of gravity waves near critical speed Mr. Walter Littman, New York University (15) Successive block overrelaxation Mr. R. J. Arms, Dr. L. D. Gates, Jr., and Dr. Bernd Zondek, U.S. Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia (16) On the integration methods of Bergman and Le Roux Professor J. B. Diaz and Professor G. S. S. Ludford, Univer­ sity of Maryland ( 17) Remark on the quotient-difference algorithm of H. Rutishauser Professor Peter Henrici, American University 4 (18) Hotspot problems Dr. J. R. Isbell, Ballistic Research Laboratories, and Dr. W. H. Marlow, George Washington University (19) Inequalities for eigenvalues of a free plate Professor L. E. Payne, University of Maryland (20) Stresses at the boundary of a symmetrically shaped hole in an infinite plate Professor Margaret F. Conroy, Boston College Session on Statistics and Probability, Geometry, and Analysis, Room 30J (21) On second derivatives of Markoff functions- denumerable case. Preliminary report Professor D. G. Austin, Ohio State University (22) A law of large numbers for identically distributed random vari­ ables with identically distributed increments Professor Emanuel Parzen, Columbia University (23) Four-space representation of the complex plane. I. The line at infinity Dr. D. K. Pease, University of Connecticut (24) On the holonomy group of locally euclidean spaces Dr. Louis Auslander and Dr. Masatake Kuranishi, Institute for Advanced Study (25) Projectively euclidean Hermitian manifolds. I Professor S. I. Goldberg, Wayne University (26) The differential geometry of mapping spaces. II Dr. James Eells, Jr., Institute for Advanced Study (27) On the differential geometry of hypersurfaces in the large Professor C. C. Hsiung, Lehigh University (28) On the line-complex representation of Riemann surfaces Dr. Friedrich Huckemann, Harvard University (Introduced by Professor R. D. Schafer) (29) Retraction of surfaces Professor Lamberto Cesari, Purdue University SATURDAY, 2:00P.M. General Session, Room 300 Inequalities of critical point theory (One hour) Professor Everett Pitcher, Lehigh University 5 SATURDAY, 3:15P.M. Session on Analysis, Room 300 (30) On the asymptotic solutions of a class of ordinary differential equations of the fourth order, with special reference to an equa­ tion of hydrodynamics Professor R. E. Langer, University of Wisconsin (31) On singular perturbations of nonlinear systems of differential equations related to conditional stability Dr. J. J. Levin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (32) On periodic solutions of second-order linear differentia] equa­ tions with periodic coefficients Professor W. S. Loud, University of Minnesota and Massa­ chusetts Institute of Technology (33) The inverse matrix in summability Professor Albert Wilansky, Lehigh University (34) Asymptotic forms for Whittaker functions with both parameters large Professor N. D. Kazarinoff, Purdue University (35) On the inverse Sturm-Liouvi11e problem Dr. R. B. Barrar, Hughes Aircraft Company (36) A device for studying Hausdorff moments Dr. Chandler Davis, Kenyon and Eckhardt, Inc. and Colum­ bia University (3 7) A vector-valued random ergodic theorem Mr. Anatole Beck and Professor J. T. Schwartz, Yale Univer­ sity (38) A theorem on mixed derivatives Professor George Klein, Tufts College Session on Algebra and Theory of Numbers, Room 306 (39) A class of non-Desarguesian projective planes Dr. D. R. Hughes, Ohio State University (40) Approximately finite algebras Dr. Harold Widom, Corne11 University (41) Lie and Jordan systems in simple rings with involution Professor I. N. Herstein, University of Pennsylvania (42) Derivations of differential fields. Preliminary report Professor M. P. Epstein, Johns Hopkins University 6 ( 43) Finite elementary nilpotent groups of class 2 Dr. H. K. Flesch, Cornell University (44) Simple near-rings of differentiable transformations Professor D. W. Blackett, Boston University (45) Functions of commutable linear transformations Mr. D. W. Robinson, Case Institute of Technology (Introduced by Professor R. F. Rinehart) (46) Generalization of the concept of derivative of a metric function Professor R. F. Rinehart, Case Institute of Technology (47) On the representation of Boolean rings by sets. Preliminary report Professor J. R. Biichi, University of Illinois Session on Topology, Room 302 (48) Invariants of alternating link types Dr. R. H. Crowell, Princeton University (49) A Vietoris mapping theorem for homotopy Mr. Stephen Smale, University of Michigan (50} Test spaces for dimension n Professor B. H. McCandless, Rutgers University (51) A function-space formulation of the switching-circuit problem Dr. J. P. Roth, Institute
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