Annals of Mathematics

Not to be confused with the Mathematische Annalen, an unrelated German mathematical journal.
Annals of Mathematics  
Former names
 The Analyst
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
 Ann. Math.
Discipline Mathematics
Language English
Edited by Charles Fefferman, David Gabai, Nicholas M. Katz, Sergiu Klainerman, Gang Tian
Publication details
Publisher
Publication history
 1874–present
Frequency Bimonthly
Delayed, after 5 years
3.027
Indexing
ISSN 0003-486X
LCCN 49006640
CODEN ANMAAH
OCLC no. 01481391
JSTOR 0003486X
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The Annals of Mathematics is a bimonthly mathematical journal published by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. Although its ISO 4 abbreviation is Ann. Math., Mathematical Reviews and many other mathematical publications abbreviate it as Ann. of Math. instead.[1]

History

The journal was established as The Analyst in 1874[2] 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".[3] 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.[4] This incarnation of the journal ceased publication after its tenth year, in 1883, giving as an explanation Hendricks' declining health,[5] but Hendricks made arrangements to have it taken over by new management,[6] and it was continued from March 1884 as the Annals of Mathematics.[7] 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.[8] During this time, it became an increasingly well-known and respected journal. Its rise, in turn, stimulated American mathematics. 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."[8]

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 of the Annals of Mathematics are David Gabai, Charles Fefferman, Nicholas M. Katz, Sergiu Klainerman, and Gang Tian (all from Princeton University).[9]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences,[10] and Scopus.[11] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 3.027, ranking it third out of 296 journals in the category "Mathematics".[12]

References

  1. ↑ Abbreviations of Names of Serials (PDF), American Mathematical Society, August 7, 2015, retrieved 2015-08-26.
  2. ↑ Diana F. Liang, Mathematical journals: an annotated guide. Scarecrow Press, 1992, ISBN 0-8108-2585-6; p. 15
  3. ↑ Hendricks, Joel E. (1874). "Introductory remarks". The Analyst 1 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1039/an8760100001.
  4. ↑ 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. Reprinted in Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society 37 (1), 3–8, 1999.
  5. ↑ Hendricks, Joel E. (1883). "Announcement". The Analyst 10 (5): 159–160.
  6. ↑ Hendricks, Joel E. (1883). "Announcement". The Analyst 10 (6): 166.
  7. ↑ Raymond Garver (1932). "The Analyst, 1874-1883". Scripta Mathematica 1 (1): 247–251.
  8. 1 2 J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson. Solomon Lefschetz. MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Accessed February 2, 2010
  9. ↑ Editorial Board. Annals of Mathematics, Princeton University
  10. ↑ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  11. ↑ "Scopus title list" (Microsoft Excel). Elsevier. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  12. ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Mathematics". 2012 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2013.

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