''Crelle's Journal'', or just ''Crelle'', is the common name for a

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, the ''Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik'' (in

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: ''Journal for Pure and Applied Mathematics'').

History

The journal was founded by

August Leopold Crelle August Leopold Crelle (17 March 1780 – 6 October 1855) was a German mathematician. He was born in Eichwerder near Wriezen, Brandenburg, and died in Berlin. He is the founder of ''Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik'' (also know ...

(Berlin) in 1826 and edited by him until his death in 1855. It was one of the first major mathematical journals that was not a proceedings of an academy. It has published many notable papers, including works of Niels Henrik Abel,

Georg Cantor Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( , ; – January 6, 1918) was a German mathematician. He played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of ...

, Gotthold Eisenstein, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Otto Hesse. It was edited by

Carl Wilhelm Borchardt Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (22 February 1817 – 27 June 1880) was a German mathematician. Borchardt was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. His father, Moritz, was a respected merchant, and his mother was Emma Heilborn. Borchardt studied under ...

from 1856 to 1880, during which time it was known as ''Borchardt's Journal''. The current

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is Rainer Weissauer ( Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

Past editors

* 1826–1856

* 1856–1880

* 1881–1888 Leopold Kronecker, Karl Weierstrass * 1889–1892 Leopold Kronecker * 1892–1902

Lazarus Fuchs Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs (5 May 1833 – 26 April 1902) was a Jewish-German mathematician who contributed important research in the field of linear differential equations. He was born in Moschin (Mosina) (located in Grand Duchy of Posen) and d ...

* 1903–1928 Kurt Hensel * 1929–1933 Kurt Hensel,

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 ...

, Ludwig Schlesinger * 1934–1936 Kurt Hensel, Helmut Hasse * 1937–1952 Helmut Hasse * 1952–1977 Helmut Hasse, Hans Rohrbach * 1977–1980 Helmut Hasse

References

External links

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Journal archive at the Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum

Journal index at The European Digital Mathematics Library
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