Description From the PREFACETHIS tract has been long out of print, and there is still some demand for it.
H.
H.
Pollard, for many other criticisms of a less important character.--G.
S.
Norton, and to Mr.
I am also indebted to Mr.
Norton.
J.
T.
H.
The proof which I give now is due to Mr. 36-41 of the present edition) completely.
The correction of this error has led me to rewrite a few sections (pp.
Littlewood afterwards discovered to be invalid.
E.
J.
In the first edition I reproduced a proof of Abel\'s which Mr.
The new edition differs from the first in one important point only.
I have therefore decided to republish the tract.
Four or five years have passed, and it seems very doubtful whether either of us will ever find the time to carry out our intention.
Bromwich.
I did not publish a second edition before, because I intended to incorporate its contents in a larger treatise on the subject which I had arranged to write in collaboration with Dr.
Description From the PREFACETHIS tract has been long out of print, and there is still some demand for it
