Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society

The proposed series is addressed to mathematically mature readers and to bright students in their last two years of school education. It is envisaged that the books will contain expository material not generally included in standard school or college texts. New developments in mathematics will be presented attractively using mathematical tools familiar at the high school and undergraduate levels. There will be problem sets scattered through the texts, which will serve to draw the reader into a closer hands-on study of the subject. Readers will be invited to grapple with the subject, and so experience the creative joy of discovery and contact with beauty.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever....So it is with mathematics. The discoveries of Archimedes, Apollonius and Diophantus have been sources of joy from very ancient times. It is our hope that these books will serve our readers in a similar manner.

Proposals for publication of a book in the series is invited either with a note for writing a book for the series or with a draft of the proposed book. Decision of the Editorial Board will be final.



The RMS series on LMT is jointly published by RMS and Universities Press. The authors are paid a royalty of 10% of the net price of each book. The books are distributed in India and abroad by the Universities Press.


RMS was founded in 1985, the starting of its journal - Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society (JRMS) - followed as a sequitur in 1986. As one who mooted the idea of starting the journal, the mantle of Editor-in-Chief fell naturally upon Professor K.S. Padmanabhan. He put it on a solid foundation during the period 1986-1991 of his chief editorship. Professor V. Kannan succeeded him in 1992 and continued in this capacity till 1996. Professor Kumar Murty took over the Chief Editorship in 1997. Professor Kumar Murty chose a team of relatively young but accomplished mathematicians, all Indian, as his associate editors for the JRMS . Under his stewardship, JRMS witnessed a meteoric rise. The American Mathematical Society (AMS) came forward to undertake the distribution of JRMS outside India. It is also an SCI Journal since 2014. Initially, JRMS had two issues per year. Now it has four issues per year. True to the wishes of the founders of RMS, the journal maintains both quality and regularity, the quality being taken care of by the Editor-in-Chief and his associates and regularity, by the untiring efforts of the Managing Editor Professor E. Sampathkumar. Since late 2014, the journal has started taking all submissions online only. The online system and the Editorial Office is now managed by a professional team.