  We translate Erland Samuel Bring's treatise Meletemata quaedam Mathematica
circa Transformationem Aequationum Alebraicarum (Some selected mathematics on
the Transformation of Algebraic Equations) written as his Promotionschrift at
the University of Lund in 1786, from its Latin into English, with modern
mathematical notation.
  Bring (1736 - 98) made important contributions to algebraic equations and
obtained the canonical form x^5+px+q = 0 for quintics before Jerrard, Ruffini
and Abel. In due course, he realized the significance of the projective curve
which now bears his name: the complete intersection of the homogeneous Fermat
polynomials of degrees 1,2,3 in CP^4.
