Twenty-five years of Engineering Mathematics

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 163 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-0833
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00043221

✦ Synopsis

Now that the Journal of Engineering Mathematics (JEM) has just completed its first twenty-five years, it may be an appropriate time to reminisce about its history, describe its present state and look forward to the years ahead. More than a quarter of a century ago a group of Dutch applied mathematicians, associated with the Universities of Technology at Delft, Eindhoven and Twente and with the University of Groningen, got together under the inspired leadership of the late Reinier Timman, thinking that it would be a good idea to create a journal devoted primarily to mathematics arising from engineering contexts. In the mid-fifties, in Delft, it had been Timman himself who had promoted the concept of the mathematical engineer, whose foremost interest was in tackling problems of engineering significance. In those years there were only a few journals in the world, notably QAM, QJMAM, SlAM J. Appl. Math. and ZAMP, which sought to publish papers in the