Fundamenta Mathematicae
Peer-reviewed mathematical journal
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Fundamenta Mathematicae is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics with a special focus on the foundations of mathematics, concentrating on set theory, mathematical logic, topology and its interactions with algebra, and dynamical systems.
| Discipline | Mathematics |
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| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1920 – present |
| Publisher | |
| 0.609 (2016) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Fundam. Math. |
| MathSciNet | Fund. Math. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0016-2736 (print) 1730-6329 (web) |
| LCCN | 55032438 |
| OCLC no. | 1570315 |
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The first specialized journal in the field of mathematics, originally it covered only topology, set theory, and foundations of mathematics.[1][2][3][4] It is published by the Mathematics Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
History
The journal was conceived by Zygmunt Janiszewski as a means to foster mathematical research in Poland.[5] Janiszewski posited that, to achieve its goal, the journal should not compel Polish mathematicians to submit articles written exclusively in Polish, and should be devoted only to a specialized topic in mathematics;[6] Fundamenta Mathematicae thus became the first specialized journal in the field of mathematics.[1][2][3][4]
Despite Janiszewski having, in a 1918 article, given the initial impetus for the creation of the journal,[7] he did not live long enough to see the first issue published, in Warsaw, as he died on 3 January 1920. Wacław Sierpiński and Stefan Mazurkiewicz took over as editors-in-chief. Soon after its launch, the founding editors were joined by Kazimierz Kuratowski and, later, by Karol Borsuk. Between 1920-1939, 32 volumes of the journal were published. They comprised 932 papers by 212 authors from 19 countries. Notable foreign contributors included René Maurice Fréchet, Felix Hausdorff, Henri Lebesgue and Hans Hahn.[8]
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded,[9] Scopus,[10] and Zentralblatt MATH.[11] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 0.609.[12]