Excerpt from The Theory of Relativity
The volume called Higher Mathematics, the third edition of which was published in 1900, contained eleven chapters by eleven authors, each chapter being independent of the others, but all supposing the reader to have at least a mathematical training equivalent to that given in classical and engineering colleges. The publication of the volume was discontinued in 1906, and the chapters have since been issued in separate articles or appendices which either amplify the former presentation or record recent advances. This plan of publication was arranged in order to meet the demand of teachers and the convenience of classes, and it was also thought that is would prove advantageous to readers in special lines of mathematical literature.
It is the intention of the publishers and editors to add other monographs to the series from time to time, if the demand seems to warrant it. Among the topics which are under consideration are those of elliptic functions, the theory of numbers, the group theory, the calculus of variations, and non-Euclidean geometry; possibly also monographs on branches of astronomy, mechanics, and mathematical physics may be included. It is the hope of the editors that this Series of Monographs may tend to promote mathematical study and research over a wider field than that which the former volume has occupied.
This number of the series is issued by reason of the widely general contemporary interest in the subject of relativity on the part both of mathematicians and physicists, and with the hope that it may stimulate further research and progress in this important line of inquiry.
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