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{{Infobox journal
| title = Messenger of Mathematics
| cover =
| discipline = [[Mathematics]]
| abbreviation =Messenger Math.
| publisher = Macmillan and Co.
| country = England
| frequency =
| history = 1871–1929
| openaccess =
| website =
| ISSN =
| OCLC = 2448539
}}

The '''''Messenger of Mathematics''''' is a defunct British mathematics journal. The founding [[Social:Editor-in-chief|editor-in-chief]] was William Allen Whitworth with Charles Taylor<ref>{{cite journal | title = William Allen Whitworth and a Hundred Years of Probability | author = J. O. Irwin | journal = Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A | volume = 130 | issue = 2 | year = 1967 | pages =147–176 | doi = 10.2307/2343399 | jstor = 2343399 }}</ref> and volumes 1–58 were published between 1872 and 1929.<ref name="royalsoc"/> [[Biography:James Whitbread Lee Glaisher|James Whitbread Lee Glaisher]] was the editor-in-chief after Whitworth.<ref>{{cite book | title = The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets|title-link= The History of Mathematical Tables | editor = Martin Campbell-Kelly |page=[https://archive.org/details/historymathemati00mart/page/n263 253] | chapter = Table making by committee: British table makers 1871–1965 | author = Mary Croarken| year = 2003 | publisher = [[Organization:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]] | isbn = 0-19-850841-7}}</ref> In the nineteenth century, foreign contributions represented 4.7% of all pages of mathematics in the journal.<ref>{{cite book | title = Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Research Community, 1800–1945 | author = Sloan Evans Despeaux | chapter = 4. International Contributions to British Scientific Journals, 1800–1900 | editor = Karen Hunger Parshall, Adrian Clifford Rice |page=76 | isbn = 0-8218-2124-5 | year = 2002 | publisher = American Mathematical Society}}</ref>

== History ==
The journal was originally titled '''''Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin Messenger of Mathematics'''''. It was supported by mathematics students and governed by a board of editors composed of members of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin (the last being its sole constituent college, Trinity College Dublin). Volumes 1–5 were published between 1862 and 1871.<ref name="royalsoc">{{cite web|url=http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=2433 |title=Journals: O |work=The Royal Society library collections |accessdate=2007-06-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215644/http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=2433 |archivedate=September 27, 2007 }}</ref> It merged with ''The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics'' to form the ''[[Quarterly Journal of Mathematics]]''.

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{cite journal | journal = Historia Mathematica | doi = 10.1016/j.hm.2006.02.005 | title = Launching mathematical research without a formal mandate: The role of university-affiliated journals in Britain, 1837–1870 | author = Sloan Evans Despeaux | volume = 34 | issue = 1 | year = 2007 |page=89 | doi-access =  }}

==External links==
*[http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN599484047 ''Messenger of Mathematics'', vols. 1&ndash;30 (1871&ndash;1901)] digitized by the [[Organization:Center for Retrospective Digitization|Center for Retrospective Digitization]].

[[Category:Mathematics journals]]


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