THE INDIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

Founded in 1907; Registration No.: S-550, Delhi
Regd. Office : Center for Advanced study in Mathematics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune-411 007, India

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History
The Indian Mathematical Society started its publication as Progress Reports right from its establishment year 1907. The first Progress Report was published on September 1, 1907 and the second Progress Report was published on October 15, 1907. By December 1908, the Society had published 8 Progress Reports. In March 1908 a sub-committee was appointed to take steps for publication of a Journal and in the year 1909, the Progress Report were rechristened as Journal under the title 'The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Club'. The First issue of the Journal appeared in February, 1909. From 1910 onwards it is published in its current title 'The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society' and the journal appeared regularly every two months till 1933. Thereafter it turned into a quarterly journal as new series of JIMS.

The Founder Editor of the "Progress Reports" and later of the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society was Prof. M.T. Naranienger who continued till 1927 and nurtured it for 20 years.

Then the Editorship of the journal was entrusted to Prof. R. Vaidyanathswamy who served the Society as the Editor of the Journal for 23 long years from 1927 to 1950. During his tenure of Editorship, the JIMS new series was started in 1934 and was turned in to a quarterly journal . 



It was due to the hard work put in by these two pioneering editors that the JIMS established itself as one of the leading international journals - a position which it continues to have even today.

It is remarkable to note that

The 1911 volume of the JIMS contains earliest contributions of the great Indian legendry mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. They were in the form of questions. Interestingly, a fifteen page paper entitled "Some properties of Bernoulli Numbers" contributed by Ramanujan also appeared in the same 1911 volume of the Journal. In fact, he published 12 of his research papers in the Journal of The Indian Mathematical Society.

S. S. Pillai, another brilliant Indian mathematician, who almost solved the famous "Warring Problem", published 23 of his research papers in the Journal of Indian Mathemtical Society and 8 papers in the Mathematics Student.

The famous paper of modern times, by Atlee Selberg, on the "Trace Formula" was also published in the JIMS.