The American Journal of Mathematics is a bimonthly mathematics journal published by the Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press

The Johns Hopkins University Press is the publishing division of the Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1878 and holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously running university press in the United States. The Press publishes books, journals, and electronic databases...

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History

The American Journal of Mathematics is the oldest continuously-published mathematical journal in the United States, established in 1878 at the Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

 by James Joseph Sylvester

James Joseph Sylvester

James Joseph Sylvester was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory and combinatorics...

, an English-born mathematician who also served as the journal's editor-in-chief from its inception through early 1884. Other notable mathematicians who have served as editors or editorial associates of the journal include Oscar Zariski

Oscar Zariski

Oscar Zariski was a Russian mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.-Education:...

, Lars Ahlfors, Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl

Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland and then Princeton, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski.His...

, Wei-Liang Chow

Wei-Liang Chow

Zhou Weiliang was a Chinese mathematician born in Shanghai, known for his work in algebraic geometry.He was a student in the USA, graduating from the University of Chicago in 1931. In 1932 he attended the University of Göttingen, then transferring to Leipzig where he worked with van der Waerden...

, S. S. Chern, André Weil

André Weil

André Weil was an influential mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition. He is especially known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry...

, Harish-Chandra

Harish-Chandra

Harish-Chandra was an Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. -Life:...

, Jean Dieudonné

Jean Dieudonné

Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné was a French mathematician, notable for research in abstract algebra and functional analysis, for close involvement with the Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonymous group and the Éléments de géométrie algébrique project of Alexander Grothendieck, and as a historian of...

, Henri Cartan

Henri Cartan

Henri Paul Cartan was a French mathematician with substantial contributions in algebraic topology. He was the son of the French mathematician Élie Cartan.-Life:...

, Stephen Smale

Stephen Smale

Steven Smale a.k.a. Steve Smale, Stephen Smale is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966, and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Berkeley .-Education and career:He entered the University of...

, Jun-Ichi Igusa, and Joseph A. Shalika.

Scope and impact factor

The American Journal of Mathematics is a general-interest (i.e., non-specialized) mathematics journal covering all the major areas of contemporary mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

. According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...

 is 1.337, ranking it 22nd out of 255 journals in the category "Mathematics".

Editors

As of May, 2011, the editors are Christopher Sogge, editor-in-chief (The Johns Hopkins University), William Minicozzi II

William Minicozzi II

William Minicozzi II is an American mathematician. He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1967.-Career:Minicozzi graduated from Princeton University in 1990 and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1994 under the direction of Richard Schoen...

 (The Johns Hopkins University), Peter Ozsváth

Peter Ozsváth

Peter Steven Ozsváth is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He created, along with Zoltán Szabó, Heegaard Floer homology, a homology theory for 3-manifolds....

 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

), Freydoon Shahidi

Freydoon Shahidi

Freydoon Shahidi is an Iranian mathematician who is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in the U.S. He is known for a method of automorphic L-functions which is now known as the Langlands–Shahidi method. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and...

 (Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

), and Vyacheslav Shokurov

Vyacheslav Shokurov

Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Shokurov, born on 18 May 1950, is aRussian mathematician best known for his research inalgebraic geometry. The proof of the Noether–Enriques–Petri theorem,the Cone theorem, the existence of a line on smooth Fano varieties...

(The Johns Hopkins University).