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| Discipline | Mathematics |
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| Language | English, French, German |
| Edited by | Tobias Ekholm |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1882–present |
| Publisher | International Press on behalf ofMittag-Leffler Institute |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Yes | |
| 4.273 (2020) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Acta Math. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | ACMAA8 |
| ISSN | 0001-5962 (print) 1871-2509 (web) |
| LCCN | 15001937 |
| OCLC no. | 01460915 |
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Acta Mathematica is apeer-reviewedopen-accessscientific journal covering research in all fields ofmathematics.
According toCédric Villani, this journal is "considered by many to be the most prestigious of all mathematical research journals".[1] According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020impact factor of 4.273, ranking it 5th out of 330 journals in the category "Mathematics".[2]
The journal was established byGösta Mittag-Leffler in 1882 and is published byInstitut Mittag-Leffler, a research institute for mathematics belonging to theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[3] The journal was printed and distributed bySpringer from 2006 to 2016. Since 2017, Acta Mathematica has been published electronically and in print byInternational Press. Its electronic version is open access without publishing fees.
The journal's "most famous episode" (according to Villani[1]) concernsHenri Poincaré, who won a prize offered in 1887 byOscar II of Sweden for the best mathematical work concerning thestability of the Solar System by purporting to prove the stability of a special case of thethree-body problem. This episode was rediscovered in the 1990s byDaniel Goroff, in his preface to the English translation of "Les méthodes nouvelles de la mécanique céleste"[4] by June Barrow-Green and K.G. Andersson.[5][6]The prized or lauded paper was to be published inActa Mathematica, but after the issue containing the paper was printed, Poincaré found an error that invalidated his proof. He paid more than the prize money to destroy the print run and reprint the issue without his paper and instead published a corrected paper a year later in the same journal that demonstrated that the system could be unstable. This paper later became one of the foundational works ofchaos theory.[1]