The Messenger of Mathematics is a defunct mathematics journal.

The editor-in-chief was William Allen Whitworth with Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor (scholar)

Charles Taylor was an English Christian Hebraist.-Life:He was educated at King's College London, and St. John's College, Cambridge, where graduated BA as 9th wrangler in 1862 and became a fellow of his college in 1864. He became Master of St John's in 1881...

 and volumes 1–58 were published between 1872 and 1929. James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher son of James Glaisher, the meteorologist, was a prolific English mathematician.He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was second wrangler in 1871...

 was the editor-in-chief after Whitworth.

In the nineteen century, foreign contributions represented 4.7% of all pages of mathematics in the journal.

History

The journal was originally titled Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin Messenger of Mathematics. It was supported by mathematics students, and conducted by a board of editors composed of members of the three universities. Volumes 1–5 were published between 1862 and 1871.

It merged with The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics was a mathematics journal established in 1836 as the Cambridge Mathematical Journal for the first 4 volumes. It was renamed Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal starting with volume 5...

to form the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics

Quarterly Journal of Mathematics

The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics is a mathematics journal formed in 1930 from the merger of The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics and the Messenger of Mathematics. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2009 impact factor of 0.656, ranking it 117th out of...

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