In fact, 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. However, in view of the fact that there is no periodical in the country targeting the students, teachers and upcoming researchers, at the suggestion and support of renowned senior mathematicians like Prof. Bruce C. Berndt (Illinois, USA), Prof. George E. Andrews (Pensylvania, USA), Prof. M. Ram Murty (Queen's University, Canada), Prof. S. G. Dani (TIFR, Mumbai) and several others, a humble begining is again made since 2015 to revive certain characteristics of its earlier period relevant to day.

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 Prof. K. Chandrasekharan was held at T I F R, Bombay, during February 1956 in which mathematicians like M. H. Stone, G. Choquet, H. Freudenthal and a host of other world mathematicans participated; the entire Proceedings of the conference has been published in the Mathematics Student Vol. 54 (1956).

** S. S. Pillai, a brilliant Indian mathematician, who almost solved the famous "Warring Problem", published 8 papers in the Mathematics Student.

It may be noted by all concerned that
(i) No charges:
There are no page charges or any other charges, either to the authors or to authors' institutions, for publication of an article in any of the two periodicals published by the Society.

However, the author(s) whose paper is accepted for publication in any of the IMS periodicals are required to submit the LaTeX source file of the finalized accepted paper.

(ii) Peer review:
Right from its begining, both the periodicals are peer reviewed and are indexed in MathSciNet (MR) and ZentralBlatt MATH - the biggest data bases of Mathematical Sciences in the world.

Each and every article received for publication is peer reviewed/evaluated by a relevant discipline expert from the Editorial Board or from the academic institutes from India & abroad; and the acceptance of the article is strictly as per their recommendation.

(iii) Copyright:
Copy right of the articles published in the Student or the Journal lies with the Indian Mathematical Society.

(iv). Reprints:
As a part of the green iniative voluntarily embraced by the Society, henceforth, from the 2012 issue of The Mathematics Student onwards, authors of the papers printed in the Journal as well as in the Mathematics Student shall be entitled to receive a soft copy (PDF file with watermarked "Author's copy") of the paper published as a reprint (insteard of the hard copies that were being supplied earlier).

(v) Members copy:
Also, the Life Members of the Society will be given an on line access to the Mathematics Student / will be sent on line a soft copy of the Mathematics Student in electronic form (water marked as Member's copy-not for circulation), instead of supplying the hard copy, for their personal use at their email address registered by the members with the Society.

Those Members who have not registered or have changed their e-mail address are requested to register it on line on imsgoesgreen@gmail.com ,

(vii) Free access
The print copy of Math Student can be purchased from the Society by any individual or institution on subscription basis. For life members a hard copy was given earlier to everyone as a privilege, but now we give a soft copy for their personal use. Several issues of the Math Student have also been uploaded on our website which can be used by anyone free of charge. The Math Student is not an open access journal currently in vogue." This is necessary since the Math Reviews and Zentralblatt take copies of Math Student for reviewing purposes from our website only.

For the benefit of the larger redaeship for participation, the Society has started making available on its website a soft copy the Mathematics Student, for free access to all, from 2012 onward and have infact also uploaded certain earlier issues.
The contents of the issues from 2001-2015 of The Mathematics Student will continue to be available on the Society's website with {\it URL}:
www.indianmathsociety.org.in
and a physical copy of The Mathematics Student will continue to be available at the IMS Library (housed in the Ramanujan Institute of Advanced Study in Mathematics, Madras University, Chennai) as well as at the Registered Office of the Society (Department of Mathematics, University of Pune, Pune-422 007) for reference during office hours.