(English: ''Reports from the Mathematical Seminar of the University of Hamburg'') is a
peer-reviewed
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mathematics journal
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published by
Springer Science+Business Media
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. It publishes articles on
pure mathematics
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and is scientifically coordinated by the ''Mathematisches Seminar'', an informal cooperation of mathematicians at the
Universität Hamburg
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; its managing editors are professors and Tobias Dyckerhoff. The journal is indexed by ''
Mathematical Reviews
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'' and
Zentralblatt MATH
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.
History
The ''Abhandlungen'' were set up as a new journal by
Wilhelm Blaschke
Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke (13 September 1885 – 17 March 1962) was an Austrian mathematician working in the fields of differential and integral geometry.
Education and career
Blaschke was the son of mathematician Josef Blaschke, who taugh ...
in 1922 at the newly created Department of Mathematics (called ''Mathematisches Seminar'') at the newly founded
Hamburgische Universität. Blaschke invited
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (; ; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, ...
and
David Hilbert
David Hilbert (; ; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics and one of the most influential mathematicians of his time.
Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental idea ...
to the ''Mathematisches Seminar'' (in 1920 and 1921, respectively) to deliver a talk series on their views concerning the
Foundations of Mathematics
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. These talks formed part of the early history of the
Grundlagenkrise der Mathematik, and Hilbert's talk was published in the first volume of the new journal.
The first volumes of the journal contain numerous papers of famous mathematicians such as
Paul Bernays
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,
Constantin Carathéodory
Constantin Carathéodory (; 13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) was a Greeks, Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant contributions to real and complex analysis, the calculus of variations, ...
,
G. H. Hardy
Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of pop ...
&
J. E. Littlewood,
Jacques Herbrand
Jacques Herbrand (12 February 1908 – 27 July 1931) was a French mathematician. Although he died at age 23, he was already considered one of "the greatest mathematicians of the younger generation" by his professors Helmut Hasse and Richard Coura ...
,
Ruth Moufang,
George Pólya
George Pólya (; ; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian-American mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental contributi ...
, and
John von Neumann
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.
Until 1970, the ''Mathematisches Seminar'' was covering all of mathematics, including
applied mathematics
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,
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, and
statistics
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. After the
reform of the university, it became the research institute of
pure mathematics
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. As an institution, the ''Mathematisches Seminar'' was dissolved in 1999 and the informal cooperation with the same name was formed.
Since 2007, the journal is published by
Springer Science+Business Media
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Originally founded in 1842 in ...
.
List of managing editors
The
professor
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s of the ''Mathematisches Seminar'' of the
Universität Hamburg
The University of Hamburg (, also referred to as UHH) is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System ('' Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen''), the Hamburg Colon ...
are serving as member of the editorial board of the journal. Until volume 36, the editorial board consisted of the directors of the ''Mathematisches Seminar'' and there was no
managing editor
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United States
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. In those years, the following Hamburg professors were members of the editorial board:
,
Emil Artin
Emil Artin (; March 3, 1898 – December 20, 1962) was an Austrians, Austrian mathematician of Armenians, Armenian descent.
Artin was one of the leading mathematicians of the twentieth century. He is best known for his work on algebraic number t ...
,
Heinz Bauer
Heinz Bauer (31 January 1928 – 15 August 2002) was a German mathematician.
Bauer studied at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received his PhD there in 1953 under the supervision of Otto Haupt and finished his habilitation in 1956, b ...
,
Wilhelm Blaschke
Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke (13 September 1885 – 17 March 1962) was an Austrian mathematician working in the fields of differential and integral geometry.
Education and career
Blaschke was the son of mathematician Josef Blaschke, who taugh ...
,
Hel Braun,
Lothar Collatz
Lothar Collatz (; July 6, 1910 – September 26, 1990) was a German mathematician, born in Arnsberg, Province of Westphalia, Westphalia.
The "3''x'' + 1" problem is also known as the Collatz conjecture, named after him and still unsolved. The Col ...
,
Max Deuring,
Helmut Hasse
Helmut Hasse (; 25 August 1898 – 26 December 1979) was a German mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of ''p''-adic numbers to local class field theory and ...
,
Erich Hecke
Erich Hecke (; 20 September 1887 – 13 February 1947) was a German mathematician known for his work in number theory and the theory of modular forms.
Biography
Hecke was born in Buk, Province of Posen, German Empire (now Poznań, Poland). He ...
,
,
Erich Kähler
Erich Kähler (; 16 January 1906 – 31 May 2000) was a German mathematician with wide-ranging interests in geometry and mathematical physics, who laid important mathematical groundwork for algebraic geometry and for string theory.
Education an ...
,
Hans Rademacher
Hans Adolph Rademacher (; 3 April 1892 – 7 February 1969) was a German-born American mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory.
Biography
Rademacher received his Ph.D. in 1916 from Georg-August-Universität Göt ...
,
Johann Radon
Johann Karl August Radon (; 16 December 1887 – 25 May 1956) was an Austrian mathematician. His doctoral dissertation was on the calculus of variations (in 1910, at the University of Vienna).
Life
RadonBrigitte Bukovics: ''Biography of Johan ...
,
Leopold Schmetterer,
Emanuel Sperner
Emanuel Sperner (9 December 1905 – 31 January 1980) was a German mathematician, best known for two theorems. He was born in Waltdorf (near Neiße, Upper Silesia, now Nysa, Poland), and died in Sulzburg-Laufen, West Germany. He was a student a ...
,
Ernst Witt
Ernst Witt (26 June 1911 – 3 July 1991) was a German mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time.
Biography
Witt was born on the island of Alsen, then a part of the German Empire. Shortly after his birth, his parents moved the f ...
, and
Hans Zassenhaus
Hans Julius Zassenhaus (28 May 1912 – 21 November 1991) was a German mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra.
Biography
He was born in Koblenz in 1912.
His father was a historian and ...
.
Starting with volume 37, a pair of managing editors (''Schriftleitung'') was responsible for the administration of the editorial process.
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