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Historical notes

Foundation and the first four series

The journal was founded in 1913 as the press organ of the "Seminario Matematico della Facoltà di Scienze della Reale Uninversità di Roma": [3] its first director (Editor in chief) was Vito Volterra, [4] who held this position from its foundation to the year 1921. The direction passed to Guido Castelnuovo who held it from 1921 to 1922: [7] with the beginning of and during the publishing of the whole second and third series of the journal, from 1922 to 1935 Federigo Enriques was the director. [8] During fourth series of the journal, at the starting of which it underwent its first name change, the direction passed to Gaetano Scorza, who held it until his death in 1939. [9]

The INdAM and its influence

The founding of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica in 1939, under the decisive influence of Francesco Severi, [10] had important consequences on the "Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico". On 23 November 1939, during its first meeting, the Scientific Council [11] of the then newborn institute, [12] considering the need of a means to publish the results of the research done by the members and the students working at the institute, [13] decided to merge the needed means and the already existing journal in one single entity, giving birth to the "Rendiconti di Matematica e delle sue Applicazioni". [13] Entrusted with this double function the fifth series of the journal, from the first volume published in 1940 [14] to the first issue of the fourth volume published in 1943, [15] included a section listing the programs of the INdAM courses of the current academic year [16] as well as section listing the research problems proposed by the lecturers currently working at the institute. [17]

Timeline of Journal series and editors in chief

YearsJournal seriesJournal nameEditor in chiefYears in chargeReferences
1913–1922Serie ISeminario Matematico
della Regia Università di Roma:
Rendiconti delle sedute [1]
Vito Volterra1913–1921( Ceccherini 1970 , pp. I, IX)
Guido Castelnuovo1921–1922
1922–1931Serie IIFederigo Enriques1922–1935( Ceccherini 1970 , pp. IX, 9, 17)
1931–1935Serie III
1936–1939Serie IVRendiconti del Seminario Matematico
della Regia Università di Roma [18]
Gaetano Scorza1936–1939( Ceccherini 1970 , pp. I, IX)
1940–1967Serie VRendiconti di Matematica
e delle sue Applicazioni
Francesco Severi,
Enrico Bompiani and
Fabio Conforto [19]
1940–1954( Ceccherini 1970 , pp. I, IX)
Francesco Severi and
Enrico Bompiani
1954–1959( Ceccherini 1970 , pp. I, IX)
Francesco Severi and
Beniamino Segre
1960–1961( Ceccherini 1970 , pp. I, IX)
Beniamino Segre1961–1972( Ceccherini 1970 , pp. I, IX),
(Journal "Historical Notes"2016)
1968–1980Serie VIRendiconti di Matematica
Gaetano Fichera and
Aldo Ghizzetti
1973–1976(Journal "Historical Notes"2016)
Aldo Ghizzetti1976–1983(Journal "Historical Notes"2016)
1981–presentSerie VIIRendiconti di Matematica
e delle sue Applicazioni
Paolo Emilio Ricci 1984–1985(Journal "Historical Notes"2016)
Pietro Benvenuti and
Paolo Emilio Ricci
1986–1995(Journal "Historical Notes"2016)
Pietro Benvenuti1996–2003(Journal "Historical Notes"2016)
Alessandro Silva 2004–2015(Journal "Historical Notes"2016)
Marco Manetti 2016–present(Journal "Historical Notes"2016)

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 According to Ceccherini (1970, p. 3 footnote (*)), the first printing of the first volume was printed in the typography of the Pallotta Brothers ("Ditta F.lli Pallotta") under the title "Seminario Matematico della Regia Università di Roma: Verbali delle sedute" (English: Mathematical Seminar of the Royal University of Rome: Minutes of the sessions) instead of "Rendiconti delle sedute" (English: Reports of the sessions). The same year, the new printer, the "Tipografia Nazionale di Bertero e C.", substituted the cover page of the journal with the stated name.
  2. See ( Zappa 1984 , p. 12) and ( Roghi 2005 , p. 10).
  3. 1 2 ( Bacciotti 1998 , p. 309), ( The Editorial Board 2016a ).
  4. 1 2 According to the Journal "Historical Notes" (2016): see also ( Ceccherini 1970 , p. 3).
  5. See the journal editorial policy statement at the journal home page (2016).
  6. (Journal home page (2016).
  7. Ceccherini (1970 , pp. IX, 3).
  8. Ceccherini (1970 , pp. IX, 9, 17).
  9. ( Ceccherini 1970 , pp. IX, 19)
  10. According to De Concini (2005 , p. VII) and Zappa (1984 , p. 12), who also who precisely states that:-"Proprio in quell'anno 1939–1940, Severi aveva costituito l'Istituto di Alta Matematica" (English: Just in that year 1939–1940, Severi constituted the Istituto di Alta Matematica).
  11. "Italian : Il Consiglio Scientifico" ( Roghi 2005 , p. 8).
  12. The members of the council were Francesco Severi (the president), Luigi Fantappiè, Giulio Krall as members of the institute, Enrico Bompiani and Mauro Picone as member chosen by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Rome ( Roghi 2005 , p. 8).
  13. 1 2 ( Roghi 2005 , p. 10).
  14. ( Ceccherini 1970 , p. 26).
  15. ( Ceccherini 1970 , p. 42).
  16. "Programmi dei corsi..." (English: Course programs...): see ( Ceccherini 1970 , pp. 28–29, 31–32, 37–39, 45–46).
  17. "Problemi, risultati e discussioni (lavori di seminario)" (English: Problems, results and discussions (Seminar wors)): see ( Ceccherini 1970 , pp. 27–28, 29–31, 32–34, 35–37, 39–41, 43–45) and also the description of the activities at the INdAM in the early 1940s given by Zappa (1984 , p. 12).
  18. Called also "Bollettino del Seminario Matematico" (English: Bulletin of the Mathematical Seminar) by Roghi (2005 , p. 10).
  19. As the "Direttore gerente responsabile", i.e. as the managing director of the journal, according to Ceccherini (1970 , pp. IX, 26).

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