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THE jubilee commemoration volume of the Journal of this Society contains, in addition to the usual research papers, an account of the history of the Society. It began in a very modest way in 1907, when Mr. V. Ramaswamy Aiyyar, then deputy collector at Gooty, formed the “Analytical Club”, the object of which was to subscribe for mathematical periodicals and circulate them among the members. In 1909 appeared the first number of the Journal. By the end of 1910, the name of the Society had changed twice, first to the “Indian Analytical Club” and then to the “Indian Mathematical Society”. The number of members, originally about twenty, is now nearly three hundred. A central library is maintained at Poona, and conferences are held biennially in different parts of India. The Society is conducting an inquiry into the present conditions of mathe matical teaching and examinations in schools and colleges, with the view of introducing certain reforms, and is also trying to set up prizes for research. It is considering the advisability of dividing its Journal into two parts, an advanced part for the publication of research papers, as at present, and a new ele mentary part, similar to the Mathematical Gazette or the American Mathematical Monthly. The achieve ment of which the Society is most proud is the discovery of the great Indian mathematician Ra-manujan, whose contributions began to appear in the Journal in 1911. In the present volume, the place of honour is given to two papers developing Ramanujan's results.
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The Indian Mathematical Society. Nature 134, 567 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134567a0
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