Formed in 1927 from the merger of
The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
(

;
since 1855, formerly
The Cambridge Mathematical Journal (1837-1845, established by
Duncan Gregory, the first mathematical journal in UK) and
The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal (1846-1854, renamed by
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin))), and
The Messenger of Mathematics (since 1871, formerly
The Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin Messenger of Mathematics,
established in 1861, not to be confused with
The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
).
A seemingly unrelated
Cambridge Journal of Mathematics
was established in 2013 by International Press (Boston).
Published plagiarism: Marcu 1991
[
MR1094344]
G.H. Hardy,
Dr. Glaisher and the 'Messenger of Mathematics',
Messenger Math. 58 (1929), 159-160.
T. Crilly,
The Cambridge Mathematical Journal and its descendants: the linchpin of a research community in the early and mid-Victorian Age,
Historia Mathematica 31 (2004), 455-497.
S.E. Despeaux,
"Very Full of Symbols": Duncan F. Gregory, the Calculus of Operations, and the Cambridge Mathematical Journal,
Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800-1950)
(ed. J.J. Gray and K.H. Parshall), AMS/LMS, 2007, 49-