Periodicals published by the Society: The Indian Mathematical Society publishes two periodicals: The Jourmal of the Indian Mathematical Society ( J. Ind. Math. Soc., JIMS; the Journal ; ISSN 0019-5839 ) and The Mathematics Student (Math Student) ( Math Student ; ISSN 0025-5742 ) both of which are quarterly. The four numbers of the Journal constitute a single volume and it is published in two parts: numbers 1 and 2 (January to June) as one part and numbers 3 and 4 (July to December) as the second part. The four numbers of the Student are published as a single yearly volume. The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society (ISSN 0019-5839): * Only the research papers of high quality are published in the Journal . The Society was founded in April, 1907 and since then it started publishing Progress Reports. 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 from 1909, the Progress reports were rechristened as Journal, and under the title 'The Jourmal of the Indian Mathematical Club the First issue appeared in February, 1909 . The title was then changed to its present title as 'The Jourmal of the Indian Mathematical Society and since then the journal appeared regularly every two months till 1933..The Founder Editor of the "Pregress reports" and later of the Journal was Professor 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 may be noted with great pride that • 1911 volume of this Journal contains earliest contributions of the great legendry mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. They were in the form of questions. In fact 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 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 Mathematics Student ( ISSN 0025-5742 ) At the time of the silver jubilee celebrations of the Society on the occasion of completion of twenty five years of existence of the Indian Mathematical Society in 1932, it was decided to start the publication of another periodical and accordingly the Society started in 1933 a new periodical, named The Mathematics Student, with A. Narasinga Rao as its first Editor who worked as the founder editor almost single-handed with great devotion for eighteen years (1933-1950)and placed it on a firm footing. For many years the Mathematics Student used to contain book reviews, announcements, news, notices, problems and solutions, reports of conerences of the Society, academic activities such as class-room notes and other materials considered to promote teaching of mathematics. It used to serve the the student community and beginning researchers by its critical treatment of different level mathematics. Students and Research scholars also used to contribute to it. Among the contributors to the problem section, special mension may be made of Prof. A.A. Krishnaswamy Iyenger, Prof. M.T. Naranienger, Professor K. Satyanarayana and shri D. R. Kaprekar. Over the years the character of the Mathematics Student had changed and it turned almost completely in to a research journal. It may be noted with great pride that • A conference, first of its kind in Asia, entitled "South Asian Conference on Mathematical Education" under the directorship of K. Chandrasekharan was held at TIFR, Bombay during Feb, 1956 in which mathematicians like M. H. Stone, G . Choquet, H. Freudenthal and a host of other world mathematicians participated. The entire Proceedings of the conference has been published in the Mathematics Student Vol 54 (1956). * Ordinarily the following is currently published in The Mathematics Student : • the texts (written in a way accessible to students) of the Presidential Addresses, the Plenary talks and the Award Lectures delivered at the Annual Conferences. • general survey articles, popular articles, expository papers, Book-Reviews, etc. • problems and solutions of the problems, • new, clever proofs of theorems that graduate / undergraduate students might see in their course work, • research papers (not highly technical, but of interest to larger readership) and • articles that arouse curiosity and interest for learning mathematics among readers and motivate them for doing mathematics. Contributions of these type are invited for publication in THE MATHEMATICS STUDENT. Manuscript Submission : Manuscripts intended for publication should be prepared as per the style given below and should be submitted online in the LaTeX / .pdf file including figures and tables. For the Journal, manuscripts in the electronic form should be submitted to Prof. Satya Deo, Editor, J. Indian Math. Soc.. Harishchandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad – 211 019 (UP), India. E-mail : sdeo94@gmail.com , jimsmorane@gmail.com . For the Student, manuscripts in the electronic form should be submitted to Prof. J. R. Patadia, Editor, The Mathematics Student. (Department of Mathematics, The M S University of Baroda) 5, Arjun Park, Near Patel Colony, Behind Dinesh Mill, Shivanand Marg, Vadodara-390 007 (Gujarat), India. E-mail : msindianmathsociety@gmail.com Copyright : Copy right of the articles published in the Journal or the Student lies with the Indian Mathematical Society. Reprints: Authors of the papers printed in the Journal as well as in the Mathematics Student shall be entitled to receive soft copy (PDF file with watermarked ‘Author’s copy”) of the paper published. There are no page charges for publications in the Journal as well as in the Mathematics Student. However, if author(s) (whose paper is accepted for publication in any of the IMS periodicals) is (are) unable to send the LaTeX file of the accepted paper, then a charge Rs. 100 (US $10) per page will be levied for LaTex typesetting charges Manuscript Style : Manuscripts (including bibliographies, tables, etc.) should be typed double spaced on A4 size white paper with 1 inch (2.5 cm.) margins on all sides with font size 11 pt., in LaTeX. While typing in LaTeX, the following Preamble be used as is required of the Press : \documentclass[10 pt,a4paper,twoside,reqno]{amsart} \usepackage{amsfonts,amssymb,amscd,amsmath,enumerate,verbatim,calc} \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.2} \textwidth = 12.5 cm \textheight = 20 cm \topmargin = 0.5 cm \oddsidemargin = 1 cm \evensidemargin = 1 cm \pagestyle{plain} Sections should appear in the following order : Title Page, Abstract, Text, Notes and References. Comments or replies to previously published articles should also follow this format with the exception of abstracts. Title Page: The Title page should include the manuscript title, authors’ names & permanent affiliations and the name, address & e-mail address of the author to whom page proofs and reprints are required to be sent. Abstract: The following page should include an abstract of not more than 100 words, a list of two to six key words and AMS subject classification (2010). Text: The text of the manuscript should begin on a new page. The introduction should have heading number 1. Subsequent section headings (including appendices) should be designated by Hindu-Arabic numerals (2,3,…etc.) and subsection headings should be numbered 2.1, 2.2, etc. Figures, tables and displayed equations should be numbered consecutively throughout the text (1, 2,… etc.). Equation numbers should appear flush left in parentheses and running variables for equation (e.g., i =1,2,…, n) flush right in parentheses. References: Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic citations lies entirely with the Authors. References in the body of the text should be in cross-reference style ((\cite{}) mode in LaTeX). Example: “… as mentioned in (\cite{}, \cite{}), Ramanujan (\cite{}) obtained the following result …”. references In the list at the end should be in alphabetical order of last name (not initials) and should be in bibliographic cross references mode/style. Examples: Reference to a journal publication: [1]. Birkhoff, G., Neutral elements in general lattices, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46 (1940), 702–705. In LaTeX, \bibitem{Birk} Birkhoff, G., \textit{Neutral elements in general lattices}, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. {\bf{46}}(1940), 702–705. Reference to a book: [1]. Munkres, J., Elements of Algebraic Topology, Addison–Wesley, 1984. In LaTeX, \bibitem{Munkrs} Munkres, J., \textit{Elements of Algebraic Topology}, Addison–Wesley, 1984. Illustration Style: Originals for illustrations should be sharp and of good contrast. Each Figure and Table should be mentioned in the text and numbered consecutively using Hindu-Arabic numerals. For each Figure and Table, its desired location in the text should be clearly specified. Each Figure and Table must have a caption. Example of proper style for captions : “Figure 1” or “Table 1”. Suggested Figure formats are : TIFF, GIF, EPS, PPT and Postscript. Files should be at least 300 dpi. 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