''Aequationes Mathematicae'' is a

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. It is primarily devoted to

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s, but also publishes papers in

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, and

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. As well as publishing regular journal submissions on these topics, it also regularly reports on international symposia on functional equations and produces bibliographies on the subject. János Aczél founded the journal in 1968 at the

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, in part because of the long publication delays of up to four years in other journals at the time of its founding. It is currently published by

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, with Zsolt Páles of the

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as its editor in chief. János Aczél remains its honorary editor in chief. it was listed as a second-quartile mathematics journal by

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