1975: Issue 1
1976: Issue 2 Issue 3 Issue 4 Issue 5 Issue 6
1977: Issue 7 Issue 8 Issue 9 Issue 10 Issue 11 Issue 12 Issue 13
1978: Issue 14 Issue 15 Issue 16 Issue 17
1979: Issue 18 Issue 19 Issue 20
1980: Issue 21 Issue 22 Issue 23 Issue 24
1981: Issue 25 Issue 26 Issue 27
1982: Issue 28 Issue 29 Issue 30
1984: Issue 33 Issue 34 Issue 35
1985: Issue 36 Issue 37 Issue 38
1986: Issue 39 Issue 40 Issue 41
1987: Issue 42 Issue 43 Issue 44
1988: Issue 45 Issue 46 Issue 47
1989: Issue 48 Issue 49 Issue 50
1990: Issue 51 Issue 52 Issue 53
1991: Issue 54 Issue 55 Issue 56
1992: Issue 57 Issue 58 Issue 59
1993: Issue 60 Issue 61 Issue 62
1994: Issue 63 Issue 64 Issue 65
1996: Issue 68 Issue 69 Issue 70
Partial index (Issues 25-31 only)
Obituary of Basil Rennie, by George Szekeres, reproduced with the author's kind permission.
The JCMN is mainly concerned with mathematical problems, and their solution. The journal was fed by a wide network of correspondents throughout the world. Easily the most famous was Paul Erdös, who came to Townsville to see Basil on many occasions. Problems are posed, and then usually, but not always, solved by correspondents in later issues, often in several different ways. Some of these problems turn out to be old chesnuts, but most are new. There are articles on the mathematics of navigation. There are also some historical notes, usually having some connection to James Cook, the man. And then there is the occasional off-beat quotation.
Many of the articles in JCMN have no author's name attached. These were all written by Basil Rennie. But he also had a hand in many of the articles with other names attached! Sometimes, he would turn a correspondent's letter into an article, and attach their name. This process often entailed making non-trivial mathematical contributions to it!
A couple of the issues were edited by other staff members at James Cook University, when Basil Rennie was on leave. While on the staff at James Cook University from 1977 to 1984, I edited one of the issues.
Chris Smyth
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Edinburgh University, UK.
Email: chris@maths.ed.ac.uk
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