Annales de Gergonne

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Annales de Gergonne, first volume

The Annales de Gergonne , actually Annales de mathématiques pures et appliquées , were a mathematics journal published from 1810 to 1832, which was published by Joseph Gergonne (1771-1859) in Nimes . At first he had a co-editor, Thomas Lavernède. It was the first general math journal.

A total of 948 articles appeared on 9000 pages by around 140 authors. Évariste Galois published in it, as did Joseph Liouville , who founded his own mathematics journal after the Annales de Gergonne was closed ( Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées ). In addition to Gergonne himself, other authors included André-Marie Ampère , Julius Plücker , Christian Kramp , Charles Sturm , Jakob Steiner , Michel Chasles , Étienne Bobillier , Pierre Frédéric Sarrus , Charles Dupin , August Leopold Crelle , Charles Babbage and Jean-Victor Poncelet .

As a rule, the magazine appeared monthly and a total of 22 volumes appeared.

literature

  • Jean Dhombres, Mario Otero: Les Annales de mathématiques pures et appliquées: le journal d'un seul homme au profit d'une communauté enseignante , in E. Ausejo, M. Hormigon (ed.)., Messengers of Mathematics: European Mathematical Journals , 1810-1939 , Madrid, Siglo XXI de Espana Editores, 1993, pp. 3-67
  • Christian Gérini: Les Annales de Gergonne: apport scientifique et épistémologique dans l'histoire des mathématiques (= dissertation at the University of Aix-Marseille 2000), Éditions du Septentrion, Villeneuve d'Ascq, 2002.
  • Christian Gérini: Le premier journal de mathématiques , Pour la Science, June 2005.
  • Christian Gérini, Norbert Verdier: Les Annales de Mathématiques: des Annales de Gergonne au Journal de Liouville , Quadrature, No. 61, July – September 2006, Paris, EDP Sciences, 2006.

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