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    BOOK REVIEWS COMPTES RENDUS CRITIQUES

    Elementary Number Theory, by Edmund Landau, t r a n s l a -


    ted by Jacob E. Goodman; with e x e r c i s e s by Paul T. Bateman
    and Eugene E . Kohlbecker. Chelsea Publishing Company, 1958.
    256 p a g e s . $ 4 . 9 5 .
    F r o m the P u b l i s h e r ' s P r e f a c e : ' P r o f e s s o r Landau gave a
    s i x - s e m e s t e r c o u r s e on Number Theory at the University of
    GSttingen which was published in t h r e e volumes as , T Vorlesungen
    uber Zahlentheorie" (Leipzig, 1927) each volume being in two
    sections. The titles of these six sections a r e "Aus der e l e m e n -
    t a r e n Zahlentheorie" and "Aus der additiven Z a h l e n t h e o r i e "
    (Vol.1), "Aus der analytischen Zahlentheorie 1 ! and "Aus der geo-
    m e t r i s c h e n Zahlentheorie" (Vol.II), "Aus d e r a l g e b r a i s c h e n
    Zahlentheorie" and "Ùber die F e r m a t s c h e Vermutung" (Vol.III).
    The p r e s e n t work i s a t r a n s l a t i o n of " E l e m e n t a r e Z a h l e n t h e o r i e " .
    The book i s well known to m a t h e m a t i c i a n s in i t s e a r l i e r G e r m a n
    editions (one of them in A m e r i c a , 1947); a new review and r e -
    commendation i s therefore deemed to be u n n e c e s s a r y .

    H.S.
    L e c t u r e s on Ordinary Differential Equations, by Witold
    Hurewicz. Published jointly by the Technology P r e s s of the
    M a s s a c h u s e t t s Institute of Technology and John Wiley & Sons,
    Inc. , New York, 1958. xvii+122 p a g e s .

    Hurewicz 1 l e c t u r e notes on differential equations first a p -


    p e a r e d in mimeographed form in 1943 under the title "Ordinary
    Differential Equations in the Real Domain with E m p h a s i s on Geo-
    m e t r i c Methods" (Brown University), and were r e i s s u e d by M . I .
    T. in 1956. T h e i r appearance in book form i s m o s t welcome.

    The first chapter p r e s e n t s the basic existence and unique-


    n e s s t h e o r e m s for f i r s t - o r d e r equations in a single unknown,
    employing first the Cauchy-Euler approximation method, and
    secondly the method of successive approximations.
    The analysis for s y s t e m s i s c a r r i e d out in Chapter 2. The
    third chapter deals with linear s y s t e m s , and includes a section
    on Green 1 s function.

    Chapter 4, "Singularities of an Autonomous S y s t e m " , and


    Chapter 5, "Solutions of an Autonomous System in the L a r g e " ,
    a r e especially valuable. The fourth chapter includes a detailed
    analysis of non-linear s y s t e m s besides the standard m a t e r i a l on
    l i n e a r s y s t e m s . The chief r e s u l t of the fifth chapter i s the P o i n -
    c a r é - B e n d i x s o n t h e o r e m on limit c y c l e s . The chapter ends with
    a discussion of P o i n c a r e ' s index of a c u r v e , orbital stability of

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