Volumes Ii and Iii of Dtckson's History

as H. J. S. Smith, and Vandiver's numerous contributions to the same end. Last there is the recent work of Dickson, which bids fair to be epoch making, on Algebras and their Arithmetics,* where the classic theory of algebraic numbers finds a simple and profound generalization. With the books of Landau and Dickson, the report of Hubert and that of the present authors now available, it is to be hoped that algebraic numbers, one of the major divisions of modern mathematics, will not much longer remain in learned obscurity, but will take its rightful place as one of the chief glories of any liberal mathematical education.