Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse
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The Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse (AFST) is an
international peer reviewed scientific journal
Scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

, in the domain of mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...

. Its ISSN is 0240-2963.

AFST publishes high level articles and surveys written in English or in French, in all fields of mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...

. The Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
The Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse is the Toulouse Mathematics Institute, a CNRS Research Laboratory which federates the mathematics community of the Toulouse area in France...

 is responsible of AFST, and designates an international editorial board
Editorial board
The editorial board is a group of people, usually at a publication, who dictate the tone and direction the publication's editorial policy will take.- Board makeup :...

.

AFST is edited with the help of the Centre de diffusion de revues académiques mathématiques (CEDRAM). Old volumes are freely accessible electronically on Numdam.

History

AFST was founded in 1887 by H. Andoyer
Marie Henri Andoyer
Marie Henri Andoyer was a French astronomer and mathematician.-Biography:Andoyer was elected member of the French Académie des sciences on June 30, 1919 in the astronomy section....

, B. Baillaud, G. Berson, T. Chauvin, E. Cosserat, A. Destrem, C. Fabre, A. Legoux, P. Sabatier
Paul Sabatier (chemist)
Paul Sabatier FRS was a French chemist, born at Carcassonne. He taught science classes most of his life before he became Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Toulouse in 1905....

, T.-J. Stieltjes
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes was a Dutch mathematician. He was born in Zwolle and died in Toulouse, France. He was a pioneer in the field of moment problems and contributed to the study of continued fractions....

. At the origin, AFST was multidisciplinary. The present version corresponds to the Mathematics original section. AFST contains several papers published by great mathematicians.

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