Messenger of Mathematics

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The Messenger of Mathematics
Discipline mathematics
Language English
Publication details
Publisher Macmillan and Co. (England)
Publication history 1871-1929
Indexing
ISSN OCLC [http://worldcat.org/oclc/2448539 2448539 OCLC 2448539]

The Messenger of Mathematics is a defunct journal of mathematics.

The chief editor was William Allen Whitworth with Charles Taylor,[1] and volumes 1-58 were published between 1872 and 1929.[2] James Whitbread Lee Glaisher was the editor-in-chief after Whitworth.[3]

In the nineteen century, foreign contributions represented 4.7% of all pages of mathematics in the journal.[4]

[edit] History

The journal was originally titled Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin Messenger of Mathematics. It was supported by mathematics students, and conducted by a board of editors composed of members of the three universities. Volumes 1-5 were published between 1862 and 1871.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ J. O. Irwin (1967). "William Allen Whitworth and a Hundred Years of Probability". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) 130 (2): pp. 147–176. doi:10.2307/2343399. 
  2. ^ a b Journals: O. The Royal Society library collections. Retrieved on 2007-06-13.
  3. ^ Mary Croarken (2003). "Table making by committee: British table makers 1871-1965", in Martin Campbell-Kelly: The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets. Oxford University Press, 253. ISBN 0198508417. 
  4. ^ Sloan Evans Despeaux. "4. International Contributions to British Scientific Journals, 1800-1900", in Karen Hunger Parshall, Adrian Clifford Rice: Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Research Community, 1800-1945, p.76. ISBN 0-8218-2124-5. 

[edit] Further reading

  • Sloan Evans Despeaux (2007). "Launching mathematical research without a formal mandate: The role of university-affiliated journals in Britain, 1837–1870". Historia Mathematica 34 (1): 89. doi:10.1016/j.hm.2006.02.005. ISSN 0314-0860. 
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