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Arkiv för matematik, astronomi och fysik

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4792009 ↗
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Arkiv för matematik, astronomi och fysik (standard abbreviation Ark. Mat. Astr. Fys.) was a scientific journal edited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademien). It covered mathematics, astronomy and physics.

It started with volume 1 dated 1903/04. The last volume 32 appeared 1945/46. Then the journal was split into:

Arkiv för Matematik

Arkiv för Fysik

Arkiv för Astronomi

Arkiv för Geofysik

Contributions were published in English, French, German, and Swedish.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arkiv för matematik, astronomi och fysik” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.