Scripta Mathematica was a quarterly journal published by Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is a research university ranked as 45th in the US among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2012...

 devoted to the philosophy, history, and expository treatment of mathematics. It was said to be, at its time, "the only mathematical magazine in the world edited by specialists for laymen."

The journal was established in 1932 under the editorship of Jekuthiel Ginsburg

Jekuthiel Ginsburg

Jekuthiel Ginsburg was professor of mathematics at Yeshiva University. He established the journal Scripta Mathematica. He also was honored as a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.-References:.....

, a professor of mathematics at Yeshiva University, and its first issue appeared in 1933 at a subscription price of three dollars per year. It ceased publication in 1973. Notable papers published in Scripta Mathematica included work by Nobelist

Nobel Prize

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 Percy Williams Bridgman

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 concerning the implications for physics

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 of set-theoretic

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 paradox

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es, and Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl

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's obituary of Emmy Noether

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Some sources describe Scripta Mathematica as having been assigned but it ceased publication prior to the establishment of the ISSN system.