In some of the colleges and universities general informational courses along mathematical lines have been organized under different names, such as history of mathematics, synoptic course, fundamental concepts, cultural course, etc. Several books have recently been prepared with a view to meeting the needs of textbooks for such courses. College teachers of mathematics usually find it difficult to interest their students sufficiently in the current periodic literature, and one of the greatest problems of the college teacher is to instill such a broad interest in mathematics that the student will seek mathematical knowledge in all available sources instead of confining himself to the study of a few textbooks or the work of a particular school.
For articles on the teaching of mathematics which appeared during the nineteenth century, consult 0050 _Pedagogy_ in the _Royal Society Index_, Vol. I, Pure Mathematics, 1908. For literature appearing during the first twelve years of the present century the reader may consult the _Bibliography of the Teaching of Mathematics_, 1900-1912, by D. E. Smith and Charles Goldziher, published by the United States Bureau of Education, Bulletin, 1912, No. 29. More recent literature may be found by consulting annual indexes, such as the _International Catalogue of Scientific Literature_, A, Mathematics, under 0050, and _Revue Semestrielle des Publications Mathématiques_, under V 1. The volumes of the international review entitled _L'Enseignement Mathématique_, founded in 1899, contain a large number of articles relating to college teaching. This subject will be treated in the closing volumes of the large French and German mathematical encyclopedias in course of publication.
[3] P. Zühlke. _Zeitschrift für Mathematischen und Naturwissenschuftlichen Unterricht_, Vol. 45 (1915), page 483.
[4] Committee No. XII, American Report of the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics, 1912, page 9.
[5] _Internationale Mathematische Unterrichtskomission_, Vol. 3, No. 6 (1912), page 2.
[6] _Journal de l'Ecole Polytechnique_, Vol. 1 (1896), part 4, page lx.
[7] F. Cajori, _Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States_, 1890, page 22.