Annals of Mathematics

Last updated

History

The journal was established as The Analyst in 1874 [1] and with Joel E. Hendricks as the founding editor-in-chief. It was "intended to afford a medium for the presentation and analysis of any and all questions of interest or importance in pure and applied Mathematics, embracing especially all new and interesting discoveries in theoretical and practical astronomy, mechanical philosophy, and engineering". [2] It was published in Des Moines, Iowa, and was the earliest American mathematics journal to be published continuously for more than a year or two. [3] This incarnation of the journal ceased publication after its tenth year, in 1883, giving as an explanation Hendricks' declining health, [4] but Hendricks made arrangements to have it taken over by new management, [5] and it was continued from March 1884 as the Annals of Mathematics. [6] The new incarnation of the journal was edited by Ormond Stone (University of Virginia). It moved to Harvard in 1899 before reaching its current home in Princeton in 1911.

An important period for the journal was 1928–1958 with Solomon Lefschetz as editor. [7] During this time, it became an increasingly well-known and respected journal.[ citation needed ] Its rise, in turn, stimulated American mathematics.[ citation needed ] Norman Steenrod characterized Lefschetz' impact as editor as follows: "The importance to American mathematicians of a first-class journal is that it sets high standards for them to aim at. In this somewhat indirect manner, Lefschetz profoundly affected the development of mathematics in the United States." [7]

Princeton University continued to publish the Annals on its own until 1933, when the Institute for Advanced Study took joint editorial control. Since 1998, it has been available in an electronic edition, alongside its regular print edition. The electronic edition was available without charge, as an open access journal, but since 2008, this is no longer the case. Issues from before 2003 were transferred to the non-free JSTOR archive, and articles are not freely available until 5 years after publication.

Editors

The current editors (as of October 2022) of the Annals of Mathematics are Helmut Hofer, Nick Katz, Sergiu Klainerman, Fernando Codá Marques, Assaf Naor and Zoltán Szabó (all but Helmut Hofer from Princeton University, with Hofer being a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and Peter Sarnak also being a professor there as a second affiliation). [8]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences, [9] and Scopus. [10] According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 5.246, ranking it third out of 330 journals in the category "Mathematics". [11]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Milnor</span> American mathematician

John Willard Milnor is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and the only mathematician to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, the Abel Prize and all three Steele prizes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Solomon Lefschetz</span> American mathematician

Solomon Lefschetz was a Russian-born American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pierre Deligne</span> Belgian mathematician

Pierre René, Viscount Deligne is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoord Prize, and 1978 Fields Medal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norman Steenrod</span> American mathematician

Norman Earl Steenrod was an American mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maurício Peixoto</span> Brazilian engineer and mathematician (1921–2019)

Maurício Matos Peixoto,, was a Brazilian engineer and mathematician. He pioneered the studies on structural stability, and was the author of Peixoto's theorem.

Organometallics is a biweekly journal published by the American Chemical Society. Its area of focus is organometallic and organometalloid chemistry. This peer-reviewed journal has an impact factor of 3.837 as reported by the 2021 Journal Citation Reports by Thomson Reuters.

The Journal of Graph Theory is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal specializing in graph theory and related areas, such as structural results about graphs, graph algorithms with theoretical emphasis, and discrete optimization on graphs.

The Financial Analysts Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering investment management, published by Routledge on behalf of the CFA Institute. It was established in 1945 and as of August 2022, the editor-in-chief is William N. Goetzmann.

Annals of Physics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of physics. It was established in 1957 and is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Neil Turok.

<i>Annals of Science</i> Academic journal

Annals of Science is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of science and technology. It is published by Taylor & Francis and was established in 1936. The founding editor-in-chief was the Canadian historian of science Harcourt Brown.

The Annals of Probability is a leading peer-reviewed probability journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, which is the main international society for researchers in the areas probability and statistics. The journal was started in 1973 as a continuation in part of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics, which was split into the Annals of Statistics and this journal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helmut Hofer</span> German-American mathematician

Helmut Hermann W. Hofer is a German-American mathematician, one of the founders of the area of symplectic topology.

<i>Annals of Operations Research</i> Academic journal

Annals of Operations Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was previously published by Baltzer Science Publishers. The journal publishes 24 issues a year that focus on the theoretical, practical, and computational aspects of operations research. It also publishes periodic special volumes focusing on defined fields of operations research.

<i>Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata</i> Academic journal

The Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of pure and applied mathematics. The journal was established in 1850 under the title of Annali di scienze matematiche e fisiche, and changed to its current title in 1858: it was the first Italian periodical devoted to mathematics and written in Italian. The founding editors-in-chief were Barnaba Tortolini and Francesco Brioschi. It is currently published by Springer Science+Business Media and the editor-in-chief is Graziano Gentili.

Joseph Pierre LaSalle was an American mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.

<i>Discrete Applied Mathematics</i> Academic journal

Discrete Applied Mathematics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering algorithmic and applied areas of discrete mathematics. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Endre Boros. The journal was split off from another Elsevier journal, Discrete Mathematics, in 1979, with that journal's founder Peter Ladislaw Hammer as its founding editor-in-chief.

Charles Herbert ClemensJr. is an American mathematician specializing in complex algebraic geometry.

Erdkunde - Archive for Scientific Geography is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of geography published at the University of Bonn (Germany). Articles have been published in English since 2008. Since September 2016, the journal is available online and open access. All articles are available for free immediately and publication fees are not charged. Archived volumes are available via the journal's website, but are also made available via JSTOR. The printed version of the journal is distributed worldwide via subscriptions. Erdkunde publishes scientific articles covering the whole range of physical geography and human geography. The journal offers state of the art reports on recent trends and developments in specific fields of geography and comprehensive and critical reviews of new geographical publications. High-quality maps and large-format supplements are of particular importance. Since 2021, the journal offers the option of publishing data publications.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henry Heaton</span> Amateur mathematician (1846–1927)

Henry Heaton (1846–1927) was a North-American amateur mathematician who contributed problems and solutions to the then-new journals The Analyst and The American Mathematical Monthly. The Annals eventually became a leading research journal and the Monthly famous for its problems section.

Jiang Zehan, also known as Kiang Tsai-han, was a Chinese mathematician and founder of China's topology.

References

  1. ↑ Diana F. Liang, Mathematical journals: an annotated guide. Scarecrow Press, 1992, ISBN   0-8108-2585-6; p. 15
  2. ↑ Hendricks, Joel E. (1874). "Introductory remarks". The Analyst. 1 (1): 1–2. Bibcode:1876Ana.....1....1.. doi:10.1039/an8760100001.
  3. ↑ Fiske, Thomas S. (1905). "Mathematical progress in America" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 11 (5): 238–246. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9904-1905-01210-6 . Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09. Reprinted in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, New Series, 37 (1), 3–8, 1999.
  4. ↑ Hendricks, Joel E. (1883). "Announcement". The Analyst. 10 (5): 159–160. JSTOR   2635801.
  5. ↑ Hendricks, Joel E. (1883). "Announcement". The Analyst. 10 (6): 166. JSTOR   2635728.
  6. ↑ Raymond Garver (1932). "The Analyst, 1874-1883". Scripta Mathematica . 1 (1): 247–251.
  7. 1 2 J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson. Solomon Lefschetz. MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Accessed February 2, 2010
  8. ↑ Editorial Board. Annals of Mathematics, Princeton University
  9. ↑ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  10. ↑ "Scopus title list". Elsevier. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  11. ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Mathematics". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2021.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.