WELLCOME TO THE HOME PAGE OF THE JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (J. Indian Math. Soc. ; JIMS ; the Journal ; ISSN 0019-5839 ) The Journal is a quarterly periodical and the four numbers of it constitute a single volume. Currently it is published in two parts: numbers 1 and 2 (January to June) as one part and numbers 3 and 4 (July to December) as the second part. Since 1933, it is published as new series. An online version is also being published now from 2015 onwards. Only the high quality research papers are published in the Journal. It may be noted with pride that the Indian Mathematical Society, founded in April, 1907, started publishing Progress Reports right from its establishment year. The first Progress Report was published on September 1, 1907 and the second Progress Report was published on October 15, 1907. By December 1908, the Society had published 8 Progress Reports. In March 1908 a sub-committee was appointed to take steps for publication of a Journal and from 1909, the Progress reports were rechristened as Journal, and under the title 'The Jourmal of the Indian Mathematical Club the First issue appeared in February, 1909 . The title was then changed to its present title as 'The Jourmal of the Indian Mathematical Society and since then the journal appeared regularly every two months till 1933. The Founder Editor of the "Pregress reports" and later of the Journal was Prof. M.T. Naranienger (on the left) who continued till 1927 and nurtured it for 20 years. Then the Editorship of the journal was entrusted to Prof. R. Vaidyanathswamy (on the right) who served the Society as the Editor of the Journal for 23 long years from 1927 to 1950. During his tenure of Editorship, the JIMS new series was started in 1934 and was turned in to a quarterly journal . It was due to the hard work put in by these two pioneering editors that the JIMS established itself as one of the leading international journals - a position which it continues to have even today. It may be noted with great pride that • 1911 volume of this Journal contains earliest contributions of the great legendry mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. They were in the form of questions. Interestingly, a fifteen page paper entitled “Some properties of Bernoulli Numbers” contributed by Ramanujan also appeared in the same 1911 volume of the Journal. In fact, he published 12 of his research papers in the Journal of Indian Mathematical Society . • S. S. Pillai, • another brilliant Indian mathematician, • who almost solved the famous "Warring Problem", • published 23 of his research papers in the Journal of Indian Mathemtical Society • and 8 papers in the Mathematics Student . 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