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THE Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics of New York University, of which the director is Prof. R. Courant, has now undertaken the production of a new journal entitled Communications on Applied Mathematics, which will appear quarterly. The publishers are Interscience Publishers, New York and London, and the subscription is eight dollars a year. The first number, dated January 1948, contains 99 well-printed pages, on good paper, with several diagrams. Most of it consists of an elaborate investigation of non-linear wave propagation in shallow water and open channels by J. J. Stoker. There is also a shorter paper on free boundaries of an ideal fluid by M. Shiftman. The second number will contain other papers on water waves. It is not intended that the new journal shall deal only with hydrodynamics; later numbers will cover a great variety of topics, including quantum theory, elasticity, aerodynamics, combustion, kinetic theory of gases, and the numerical solution of non-linear partial differential equations. Most of the papers will originate from the Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics of New York University.
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A New Mathematical Journal. Nature 161, 636 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161636c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161636c0