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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The journal was conceived by <a href="/facts/Zygmunt_Janiszewski/hVrI47tl">Zygmunt Janiszewski</a> as a means to foster mathematical research in Poland.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> Janiszewski posited that, to achieve its goal, the journal should not compel Polish mathematicians to submit articles written exclusively in Polish, and should be devoted only to a specialized topic in mathematics;<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> <i>Fundamenta Mathematicae</i> thus became the first specialized journal in the field of mathematics.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p><p>Despite Janiszewski having, in a 1918 article, given the initial impetus for the creation of the journal,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> he did not live long enough to see the first issue published, in <a href="/facts/Warsaw/0cRqN3pw">Warsaw</a>, as he died on 3 January 1920. <a href="/facts/Wac%25C5%2582aw_Sierpi%25C5%2584ski/ywT4mREz">Wacław Sierpiński</a> and <a href="/facts/Stefan_Mazurkiewicz/Int8AmvA">Stefan Mazurkiewicz</a> took over as <a href="/facts/Editors-in-chief/d76Qb3Tr">editors-in-chief</a>. Soon after its launch, the founding editors were joined by <a href="/facts/Kazimierz_Kuratowski/8xoKvo5b">Kazimierz Kuratowski</a> and, later, by <a href="/facts/Karol_Borsuk/SNqCQ4EB">Karol Borsuk</a>. </p> <h2 id="abstracting-and-indexing">Abstracting and indexing</h2> <p>The journal is abstracted and indexed in the <a href="/facts/Science_Citation_Index_Expanded/uGcARlLI">Science Citation Index Expanded</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Scopus/4U5YtGXd">Scopus</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> and <a href="/facts/Zentralblatt_MATH/P6rFxKKx">Zentralblatt MATH</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> According to the <i><a href="/facts/Journal_Citation_Reports/H13uyJqD">Journal Citation Reports</a></i>, the journal has a 2016 <a href="/facts/Impact_factor/CamGH5MQ">impact factor</a> of 0.609.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <ul><li>Bradley, Michael J. (2006), <a href="https://archive.org/details/modernmathematic0000brad/page/176"><i>Modern Mathematics: 1900 to 1950</i></a>, <a href="/facts/Infobase_Publishing/EqPtkn6t">Infobase Publishing</a>, pp. <a href="https://archive.org/details/modernmathematic0000brad/page/176">176</a>, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0816054266</li> <li><a href="http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/fm/fm100/fm100126.pdf">"One Hundred Volumes of "Fundamenta Mathematicae""</a> (PDF), <i>Fundamenta Mathematicae</i>, 100 (1): 1–8, 1978, <a href="/facts/MR_(identifier)/uP137L11">MR</a> <a href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0485074">0485074</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Kazimierz_Kuratowski/8xoKvo5b">Kuratowski, Kazimierz</a> (1980), <i>A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections</i>, International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 108, Warsaw/Oxford: <a href="/facts/Wydawnictwo_Naukowe_PWN/9QPKWs70">Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN</a>/<a href="/facts/Pergamon_Press/qe6ctSTB">Pergamon Press</a>, pp. VIII+204, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 83-01-00819-9, <a href="/facts/MR_(identifier)/uP137L11">MR</a> <a href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0565253">0565253</a>, <a href="/facts/Zbl_(identifier)/P6rFxKKx">Zbl</a> <a href="https://zbmath.org/?format=complete&q=an:0438.01006">0438.01006</a></li> <li>Wasilewska, Anita (2013), <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0xlR0dv7nmcC&pg=PA2">"Chapter 1. From Logic to Computer Science–A personal Experience"</a>, in Skowron, Andrzej (ed.), <i>Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems – Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in Memoriam: Volume 2</i>, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol. 43, Berlin–Heidelberg–New York: <a href="/facts/Springer_Verlag/nAesf6nT">Springer Verlag</a>, pp. 1–5, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-642-30341-8</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://journals.impan.gov.pl/fm/">Official website</a></li> <li><a href="http://pldml.icm.edu.pl/mathbwn/element/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-journal-fm">Online archive: 1920-2000</a> at <a href="http://pldml.icm.edu.pl/mathbwn/about">Polish Digital Mathematical Library</a></li> <li><a href="https://eudml.org/journal/10256"><i>Fundamenta Mathematicae</i> (1920-2016)</a> at European Digital Mathematics Library</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>(Bradley 2006, p. 33). - Bradley, Michael J. (2006), Modern Mathematics: 1900 to 1950, Infobase Publishing, pp. 176, ISBN 0816054266 <a href="https://archive.org/details/modernmathematic0000brad/page/176" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/modernmathematic0000brad/page/176</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>(One Hundred Volumes 1978, p. 3). - "One Hundred Volumes of "Fundamenta Mathematicae"" (PDF), Fundamenta Mathematicae, 100 (1): 1–8, 1978, MR 0485074 <a href="http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/fm/fm100/fm100126.pdf" target="_blank">http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/fm/fm100/fm100126.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>(Kuratowski 1980, p. 35). - Kuratowski, Kazimierz (1980), A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections, International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 108, Warsaw/Oxford: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN/Pergamon Press, pp. VIII+204, ISBN 83-01-00819-9, MR 0565253, Zbl 0438.01006 <a href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0565253" target="_blank">https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0565253</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>(Wasilewska 2013, p. 2). - Wasilewska, Anita (2013), "Chapter 1. From Logic to Computer Science–A personal Experience", in Skowron, Andrzej (ed.), Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems – Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in Memoriam: Volume 2, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol. 43, Berlin–Heidelberg–New York: Springer Verlag, pp. 1–5, ISBN 978-3-642-30341-8 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0xlR0dv7nmcC&pg=PA2" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=0xlR0dv7nmcC&pg=PA2</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>According to Kuratowski (1980, pp. 31–32) and to the introduction to the 100th volume of the journal (1978, pp=1–2). These two sources cite an article written by Janiszewski himself in 1918 and titled "On the needs of Mathematics in Poland". - Kuratowski, Kazimierz (1980), A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections, International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 108, Warsaw/Oxford: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN/Pergamon Press, pp. VIII+204, ISBN 83-01-00819-9, MR 0565253, Zbl 0438.01006 <a href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0565253" target="_blank">https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0565253</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Kuratowski (1980, pp. 31–32) and One Hundred Volumes (1978, pp. 1–2) stress the fact that these two requirements represented revolutionary decisions at that time. - Kuratowski, Kazimierz (1980), A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections, International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 108, Warsaw/Oxford: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN/Pergamon Press, pp. VIII+204, ISBN 83-01-00819-9, MR 0565253, Zbl 0438.01006 <a href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0565253" target="_blank">https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0565253</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>(Bradley 2006, p. 33). - Bradley, Michael J. (2006), Modern Mathematics: 1900 to 1950, Infobase Publishing, pp. 176, ISBN 0816054266 <a href="https://archive.org/details/modernmathematic0000brad/page/176" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/modernmathematic0000brad/page/176</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>(One Hundred Volumes 1978, p. 3). - "One Hundred Volumes of "Fundamenta Mathematicae"" (PDF), Fundamenta Mathematicae, 100 (1): 1–8, 1978, MR 0485074 <a href="http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/fm/fm100/fm100126.pdf" target="_blank">http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/fm/fm100/fm100126.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>(Kuratowski 1980, p. 35). - Kuratowski, Kazimierz (1980), A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections, International Series in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 108, Warsaw/Oxford: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN/Pergamon Press, pp. VIII+204, ISBN 83-01-00819-9, MR 0565253, Zbl 0438.01006 <a href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0565253" target="_blank">https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0565253</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>(Wasilewska 2013, p. 2). - Wasilewska, Anita (2013), "Chapter 1. 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