The Annals of Mathematics is published bimonthly with the cooperation of Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. Founded in 1884 by Ormond Stone of the University of Virginia, the journal was transferred in 1899 to Harvard University, and in 1911 to Princeton University. Since 1933, the Annals has been edited jointly by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study.
The current editors of the Annals of Mathematics are:
Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study Phillip Griffiths, Institute for Advanced Study Robert MacPherson, Institute for Advanced Study Peter Sarnak, Princeton University Ya. Sinai, Princeton University Andrew Wiles, Princeton University
The associate editors are David Eisenbud, W. Timothy Gowers, Michael J. Hopkins, Gerhard Huisken, Curtis T. McMullen, Nolan Wallach, and Efim Zelmanov.
These web pages are intended to serve the mathematical community. They contain information relevant to authors, including Annals submission guidelines and information on how to subscribe to the Annals and order back copies.
Additionally, these pages provide an online index to issues published since 1994. It contains the tables of contents of these issues, as well as links to both AMS Reviews of the articles and electronic copies stored either in the e-print arXiv or on our server. Issues published prior to 1994 are available through JSTOR, a full-text resource containing the backfiles of selected scholarly journals, available at participating institutions.
The Notices welcomes unsolicited articles for consideration for publication, as well as proposals for such articles. The following provides general guidelines for writing Notices articles and preparing them for submission.
Notices readership. The Notices goes to about 30,000 subscribers worldwide, of whom about 20,000 are in North America. Approximately 8,000 of the 20,000 in North America are graduate students who have completed at least one year of graduate school. All readers may be assumed to be interested in mathematics research, but they are not all active researchers.
Notices articles. Articles may address mathematics, mathematical news and developments, issues affecting the profession, mathematics education at any level, the AMS and its activities, and other such topics of interest to Notices readers. Each article is expected to have a large target audience of readers, perhaps 5,000 of the 30,000 subscribers. Authors must therefore write their articles for nonexperts, rather than experts or would-be experts. In particular, the mathematics articles in the Notices are expository. The language of the Notices is English.
For more detail concerning the content, form, and editing process for articles, please see the item "Information for Notices Authors" in the section "Reference and Book List" of the January 2000 issue.
Preparation of articles for submission. The preferred form for submission of articles is as electronic files. Authors who cannot send articles electronically may send the articles by fax or by postal mail.
Articles with a significant number of mathematical symbols are best prepared in TeX. For TeX files, there is no special style file because the TeX gets converted to something else during the production process. AMS-TeX with the style file amsppt.sty works best with this production process, and plain TeX is a close second. LaTeX and AMS-LaTeX files are acceptable but require extra processing. In any case, the use of nonstandard supplementary files and complex sequences of TeX defintions is discouraged. Authors are advised to keep lines of mathematical displays relatively short so that they fit within Notices columns and do not have to be adjusted in the production process. For the handling of figures and other illustrations, please consult the editor.
Articles without a significant number of mathematical symbols may be prepared as text files in Microsoft Word. In the case of files prepared in Microsoft Word, it is advisable to send both the file and a fax of a printout.