THE NOVEMBER MEETING IN SOUTH BEND 

T h e three hundred ninety-first meeting of the American Mathe-
matical Society was held a t the University of Notre Dame, South 
Bend, Indiana, on Friday and Saturday, November 27-28, 1942 in 
connection with the Centennial Celebration of the University of 
Notre Dame. T h e attendance was a b o u t seventy including the 
following fifty-one members of the Society : 

Leonidas Alaoglu, E. S. Allen, P. H. Anderson, W. L. Ayres, Henry Blumberg, 
L. M. Blumenthal, I. W. Burr, R. V. Churchill, C. E. Clark, A. H. Copeland, C. C. 
Craig, R. P. Eddy, Samuel Eilenberg, G. M. Ewing, N. J. Fine, C. H. Fischer, J. H. 
Giese, Michael Golomb, Cornelius Gouwens, L. M. Graves, G. E. Hay, M. H. Heins, 
T. H. Hildebrandt, A. S. Householder, M. H. Ingraham, J. H. Kenna, Joseph Landin, 
H. W. Linscheid, Eugene Lukacs, G. W. Mackey, Karl Menger, A. N. Milgram, C. J. 
Nesbitt, Jerzy Neyman, Ivan Niven, C. D. Olds, P. M. Pepper, Maxwell Reade, 
G. E. Schweigert, A. H. Smith, W. S. Snyder, C. E. Springer, A. H. Stone, D. M. 
Stone, R. M. Thrall, Bernard Vinograde, Abraham Wald, M. S. Webster, G. W. 
Whitehead, A. L. Whiteman, J. W. T. Youngs. 

Sessions for the reading of contributed papers were held on Friday 
afternoon with Professor L. M. Blumenthal presiding and on Satur-
day morning with Professor R. V. Churchill presiding. Jointly with 
this meeting the University of Notre Dame held its annual Mathe-
matical Symposium, the subject being Modern statistics. On Friday 
afternoon prior to the Society session Professor Jerzy Neyman of the 
University of California spoke on Theory of confidence intervals and 
a t the close of the Society session Professor Abraham Wald of Colum-
bia University spoke on Outline of a general theory of statistical in-
ference. On S a t u r d a y morning before the session of the Society there 
were two more addresses of the Symposium: Asymptotic properties of 
the likelihood ratio test by Professor Wald and On a class of tests equiva-
lent in the limit to the likelihood ratio tests by Professor Neyman. The 
presiding officers of the Symposium sessions were Professor C. C. 
Craig, Dean M. H. Ingraham, Professors Sewall Wright and A. H. 
Copeland. T h e Symposium addresses contributed greatly to the in-
terest of the Society meetings. On Friday evening those attending the 
meetings were the guests of the University of Notre Dame a t a buffet 
supper. 

Titles and cross references to the abstracts of the papers read follow 
below. Papers 1 to 6 were read Friday afternoon, papers 7 to 12 on 
S a t u r d a y morning, and papers 13 to 20, whose abstract numbers are 
followed by the letter /, were read by title. Dr. G. S. Young was 
introduced by Professor W. L. Ayres. Paper 8 was read by Professor 
Nesbitt, 9 by Mr. Reed and 11 by Professor Smith. 

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1. Maxwell R e a d e : Remarks on a paper of Beckenbach. (Abstract 
49-1-40.) 

2. P. M. Pepper: A new method f or imbedding theorems, (Abstract 
49-1-76.) 

3. A. N . Milgram: A topologically invariant metric property of 
simple closed curves. (Abstract 49-1-98.) 

4. L. M. Graves: Metrisation of weak convergence in Banach spaces, 
(Abstract 49-1-96.) 

5. G. S. Young: Sets of axioms for the plane. Preliminary report. 
(Abstract 49-1-102.) 

6. Karl Menger: Statistical generalizations of metric geometry. (Ab-
s t r a c t 49-1-75.) 

7. Ivan Niven: An unsolved case of the Waring problem. (Abstract 
49-1-10.) 

8. C. J. Nesbitt and W. M. Scott: Some remarks on algebras over an 
algebraically closed field. (Abstract 49-1-9.) 

9. Karl Menger and S. G. Reed: On a surface not intersecting the 
set R\. (Abstract 49-1-97.) 

10. G. M. Ewing: Minimizing an integral on a class of continuous 
curves. (Abstract 49-1-30.) 

11. H . F . S. Jonah and A. H. S m i t h : Zero order summability of the 
series conjugate to the derived Fourier series. (Abstract 49-1-35.) 

12. C. E. Springer : Dual goedesics on a surface. (Abstract 49-1-80.) 
13. M. A. Basoco: On the Fourier developments of a certain class of 

theta quotients. (Abstract 48-11-310-/.) 
14. Raphael Salem: On some singular monotonie f unctions which are 

strictly increasing. (Abstract 49-1-41-/.) 
15. Ivan Niven: The Pell equation in quadratic fields. (Abstract 

49-1-11-/.) 
16. Maxwell Reade : On a theorem of Fédoroff and Binney. (Abstract 

49-1-39-/.) 
17. J. E. Wilkins: A class of functions in the calculus of variations f or 

multiple integrals in parametric form. (Abstract 49-1-52-/.) 
18. Brockway McMillan: Networks of mechanisms. Preliminary 

report. (Abstract 49-1-68-/.) 
19. Max Coral : Solution of quasi-linear partial differential equations 

through a characteristic initial curve. (Abstract 49-1-29-/.) 
20. R. L. Swain: Approximate isometries in bounded spaces. (Ab-

stract 49-1-100-/.) 
W. L. A Y R E S , 

Associate Secretary 

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