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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ2928101 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is a quarterly mathematical journal published by the American Mathematical Society.

Scope

It publishes surveys on contemporary research topics, written at a level accessible to non-experts. It also publishes, by invitation only, book reviews and short Mathematical Perspectives articles.

History

It began as the Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society and underwent a name change when the society became national. The Bulletin's function has changed over the years; its original function was to serve as a research journal for its members.

Indexing

The Bulletin is indexed in Mathematical Reviews, Science Citation Index, ISI Alerting Services, CompuMath Citation Index, and Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences.

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“Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society” enters the record as journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bulletin, American and Mathematical can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 113-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1891. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bulletin, American and Mathematical.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2928101. 8 of 8 selected statements include explicit references; 3 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society” 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.