Aracne is an Italian publishing company, founded in 1993 by Gioacchino Onorati and specialized in academic and scientific literature.
It is the only Italian publishing company that does not require exclusive rights for its publications.
Aracne publishes both paper books and ebooks, most of them in Italian, although a considerable number of works is published in English. It uses the
peer review
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer revie ...
as an evaluation system.
Aracne is a member of the programme for the Evaluation of the Quality of Research of the ANVUR, institution of the
Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
Reinhold Baer Prize
The Reinhold Baer Prize
is a
mathematics award, annually granted jointly by the no-profit association
AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications and Aracne for outstanding
PhD theses or research article in
group theory
In abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as group (mathematics), groups.
The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra: other well-known algebraic structures, such as ring (mathematics), rings, field ...
and its applications. The award is named after the
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
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**Ge ...
algebraist Reinhold Baer
Reinhold Baer (22 July 1902 – 22 October 1979) was a German mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups.
Biography
Baer studied mechanical engineering f ...
.
The laureate is presented with a pecuniary prize of
EUR
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1,000.
The first premiere took place during the international conference ''Advances in Group Theory and Applications 2017'', held in
Lecce (Italy) from September 5th to 8th, 2017.
Laureates
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Institutions mentioned above refer to the institutions where the laureates obtained their PhD.
References
External links
Official site
Publishing companies established in 1993
Publishing companies of Italy
Mass media in Rome
Companies based in Rome
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