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The Mathematical Gazette

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ7750656 ↗
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The Mathematical Gazette is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Association for Mathematics in Education. It covers mathematics education with a focus on upper secondary school through to early-stage university study.

The journal was established in 1894 by Edward Mann Langley as the successor to the Reports of the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching. William John Greenstreet was its editor-in-chief for more than thirty years (1897–1930). Since July 2025, the editor is Peter Rowlett.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief:

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO databases, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus, and zbMATH Open.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Mathematical Gazette” 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.