But they seem to have a huge surplus of 'e's and 'u's which they keep attempting to export in their publications. --ms On 2014-01-24 16:27, James Propp wrote:
I've long believed that the Brits chopped off the s at the end of the word "sports" and stuck it on the end of the word "math", conserving the total number of s's.
Jim Propp
On Friday, January 24, 2014, Eugene Salamin <gene_salamin@yahoo.com> wrote:
The abbreviation "Amer. J. Math." is standard for the "American Journal of Mathematics" published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Does your "Amer. J. Maths." refer to a different publication? If not, then customary usage is superior.
-- Gene
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Actually, I settled on a hybrid US-UK method myself. I say "Let's do some math" and "math is fun" and "the math concludes that..." But I also say "Amer. J. Maths." I feel the latter is superior for aiding the reader to reconstruct the full journal name. Journal abbreviations should not be used unless provide clear unique reconstructibility.
-- Warren D. Smith
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