''Duke Mathematical Journal'' is a

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published by

Duke University Press Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 Du ...

. It was established in 1935. The founding

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were

David Widder David Vernon Widder (25 March 1898 – 8 July 1990) was an American mathematician. He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1924 under George Birkhoff and went on to join the faculty there. He was a co-founder of the '' Duke Mathematical Jo ...

Arthur Coble Arthur Byron Coble (November 3, 1878 – December 8, 1966) was an American mathematician. He did research on finite geometries and the group theory related to them, Cremona transformations associated with the Galois theory of equations, and ...

, and

Joseph Miller Thomas Joseph Miller Thomas (16 January 1898 – 1979) was an American mathematician, known for the Thomas decomposition of algebraic and differential systems. Thomas received his Ph.D., supervised by Frederick Wahn Beal, from the University of Pennsylva ...

. The first issue included a paper by

Solomon Lefschetz Solomon Lefschetz (russian: Соломо́н Ле́фшец; 3 September 1884 – 5 October 1972) was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ...

Leonard Carlitz Leonard Carlitz (December 26, 1907 – September 17, 1999) was an American mathematician. Carlitz supervised 44 doctorates at Duke University and published over 770 papers. Chronology * 1907 Born Philadelphia, PA, USA * 1927 BA, Universi ...

served on the editorial board for 35 years, from 1938 to 1973. The current managing editor is Richard Hain ( Duke University).

Impact

According to the journal homepage, the journal has a 2018

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of 2.194, ranking it in the top ten mathematics journals in the world.

References

External links

* Mathematics journals

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