Talk:Annals of Mathematics

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[edit] possibly not originally The Analyst

This article currently (and previously) says that the Annals of Mathematics started life as The Analyst, but I'm not convinced that this is correct. JSTOR is the only source I can find that claims that to be the case. Notably, the Annals of Mathematics itself does not anywhere claim that, and instead claims to have been founded in 1884. Also, this 1905 address that discusses both journals doesn't say that they are the same journal with a name change, but treats them as separate. The Analyst did disappear at the end of 1883, with Hendricks mentioning in the last issue that he was trying to make arrangements for it to reappear under new management, and Annals of Mathematics perhaps not coincidentally appeared at the beginning of 1884. However I think it would be more accurate to say that the Annals immediately filled the void left by the Analyst, unless someone can find a source (other than JSTOR) claiming it to be a renaming of the same journal. --Delirium 01:50, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I've been wondering this also, and have read the sources you mention. However, I am not fully convinced by Fiske's remarks. I think it may be best just to email JSTOR and ask their reasons for their statement that the Annals "continues" the Analyst. --C S (Talk) 12:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
That sounds reasonable. I emailed the Annals of Mathematics but they didn't seem to have any good historical information readily available beyond what's on their website (presumably they do have archives somewhere, but maybe not well-organized ones). I'll see if I can get a reply from JSTOR. --Delirium 07:45, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
In answer to a query from my talk page about the above: I never got a reply from JSTOR, but I did find an old journal article (in a 1932 volume of Scripta Mathematica) that described the Annals as "a continuation of the Analyst". That provides at least some evidence, besides the coincidence and Hendricks's comment in the last issue of the Analyst that he planned to arrange for a continuation, that the two journals actually are considered the same. --Delirium (talk) 07:13, 16 March 2008 (UTC)