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'''''Scripta Mathematica''''' was a quarterly journal published by [[Yeshiva University]] devoted to the [[Philosophy]], history, and expository treatment of mathematics.<ref>{{citation|first=J.|last=Ginsburg|title=Scripta Mathematica|journal=Science|volume=86|issue=2218|pages=13|year=1937|doi=10.1126/science.86.2218.13-a|pmid=17737911|bibcode=1937Sci....86...13G}}.</ref> It was said to be, at its time, "the only mathematical magazine in the world edited by specialists for laymen."<ref name="dsf">{{citation|title=Dinner of the Society of Friends of Scripta Mathematica|journal=Science|volume=85|issue=2212|pages=492–493|year=1937|doi=10.1126/science.85.2212.492-a}}.</ref>

The journal was established in 1932 under the editorship of [[Jekuthiel Ginsburg]], a professor of mathematics at Yeshiva University,<ref>{{citation|title=Jekuthiel Ginsburg (1889–1957)|first=Carl B.|last=Boyer|journal=Isis|volume=49|issue=3|pages=335–336|year=1958|doi=10.1086/348677|jstor=226941|s2cid=144062847}}.</ref> and its first issue appeared in 1933<ref name="dsf"/> at a subscription price of three dollars per year.<ref>{{citation|first=Harold|last=Ross|title=Scripta Mathematica|magazine=The New Yorker|date=July 30, 1938|pages=7|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1938/07/30/1938_07_30_007_TNY_CARDS_000173035}}.</ref> It ceased publication in 1973. Notable papers published in ''Scripta Mathematica'' included work by [[Nobel Prize|Nobelist]] [[Percy Williams Bridgman]] concerning the implications for [[physics]] of [[set theory|set-theoretic]] [[paradox]]es,<ref>{{citation|first=P. W.|last=Bridgman|title=A physicist's second reaction to Mengenlehre|journal=Scripta Mathematica|year=1934|volume=2|pages=101–117 and 224–234}}.</ref> and [[Hermann Weyl]]'s obituary of [[Emmy Noether]].<ref>{{citation|first=H.|last=Weyl|title=Emmy Noether|journal=Scripta Mathematica|volume=3|pages=201–220|year=1935}}.</ref><ref>{{citation|first=Hillel (Harry)|last=Furstenberg|title=Inspiring the Love of Mathematics: The Legacy of Jekuthiel Ginsburg at Yeshiva|journal=The Commentator|date=May 16, 2005|url=http://www.yucommentator.com/media/paper652/news/2005/05/16/Yudaica/Inspiring.The.Love.Of.Mathematics-951253.shtml}}.</ref>

Some sources describe ''Scripta Mathematica'' as having been assigned {{ISSN|0036-9713}}<ref>[http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/9a5562af90b40903.html WorldCat: Scripta Mathematica].</ref> but it ceased publication prior to the establishment of the ISSN system.

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[[Category:Mathematics journals]]
[[Category:Academic journals established in 1932]]
[[Category:Publications disestablished in 1973]]
[[Category:Defunct journals of the United States]]


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