The ''Indiana University Mathematics Journal'' is a journal of

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

published by

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universit ...

. Its first volume was published in 1952, under the name ''Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis'' and edited by Zachery D. Paden and

Clifford Truesdell Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III (February 18, 1919 – January 14, 2000) was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science. Life Truesdell was born in Los Angeles, California. After high school, he spent two years in Eur ...

. In 1957,

Eberhard Hopf Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf (April 4, 1902 in Salzburg, Austria-Hungary – July 24, 1983 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA) was a mathematician and astronomer, one of the founding fathers of ergodic theory and a pioneer of bifurcation theory who ...

became editor, the journal name changed to the ''Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics'', and Truesdell founded a separate successor journal, the ''

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis The ''Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis'' is a scientific journal that is devoted to research in mechanics as a deductive, mathematical science. The current editors in chief of the journal are Felix Otto and Vladimir Sverak. It was fou ...

'', now published by

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. The ''Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics'' later changed its name again to the present name. The full text of all articles published under the various incarnations of this journal is available online from the journal's web site. The web site lists all such papers under the ''Indiana University Mathematics Journal'' name, but other bibliographies generally use the name of the journal as of the date each paper was published.

External links

Indiana University Mathematics Journal
official site and archive
Information about the history of the IUMJ
from the USC library Mathematics journals Publications established in 1952 Indiana University {{math-journal-stub