Yearbook of the Progress in Mathematics

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The yearbook on the progress of mathematics was the first comprehensive paper in the history of mathematics internationally . It contains information on almost all publications in mathematics and their areas of application from the period 1868 to 1942. The yearbook was founded in 1868 by mathematicians Carl Ohrtmann (1839–1885) and Felix Müller (1843–1928); it was published with a few exceptions annually, and initially contained from 880 references (1868) to 7000 references in the late phase (1930). Some of the presentations were written by famous mathematicians such as Felix Klein , Sophus Lie , Richard Courant and Emmy Noether . The yearbook was discontinued during the Second World War . The concept was characterized by its documentary completeness. It only appeared when all the papers of a year had been completely processed. This was later bought with a great loss of timeliness. In addition, there was the Zentralblatt MATH since 1931 , which surpassed the yearbook in terms of speed of publication. The Zentralblatt MATH was first founded by the Springer Verlag in competition, but was later subject to a joint "general editorial office".

Electronic edition

As part of the ERAM ( Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics ) project with the project sponsors Technische Universität Berlin , Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen and Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe , all data from the printed yearbook were newly recorded in a database, supplemented and processed from 1998 to 2005. The structure was set up in such a way that an integrated search is possible in combination with the data from Zentralblatt MATH . In order to meet the requirements of a modern literature database, classifications according to Mathematical Subject Classification , keywords and title translations into English have been added. This work on the indexing of the content is currently being carried out by more than 70 volunteer experts from all over the world and is far from over, especially with regard to possible comments and references to the importance of the respective work. The database also contains links to full texts, digitized by various digitization centers in Germany (Göttingen), France ( Gallica , NUMDAM) and the USA (Cornell, Michigan).

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