MSC2020
Announcement of the plan to revise the Mathematics Subject Classification
Mathematical Reviews (MR) and zbMATH cooperate in maintaining the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC), which is used by these reviewing services, publishers, and others to categorize items in the mathematical sciences literature. The current version, MSC2010, consists of 63 areas classified with two digits refined into over 5000 three- and five-digit classifications. Details of MSC2010 can be found at www.msc2010.org or www.ams.org/msc/msc2010.html and zbmath.org/classification/.
MSC2010 was a revision of the 2000 subject classification scheme developed through the collaborative efforts of the editors of zbMATH and MR with considerable input from the community. zbMATH and MR have initiated the process of revising MSC2010 with an expectation that the revision will be used beginning in 2020. From the perspective of MR and zbMATH, the five-digit classification scheme MSC is an extremely important device that allows editors and reviewers to process the literature. Users of the publications of zbMATH and MR employ the MSC to search the literature by subject area. In the decade since the last revision, keyword searching has become increasingly prevalent, with remarkable improvements in searchable databases. Yet, the classification scheme remains important. Many publishers use the subject classes at either the time of submission of an article, as an aid to the editors, or at the time of publication, as an aid to readers. The arXiv uses author-supplied MSC codes to classify submissions, and as an option in creating alerts for the daily listings. Browsing the MR or zbMATH database using a two- or three-digit classification search is an effective method of keeping up with research in specific areas.
Based in part on some thoughtful suggestions from members of the community, the editors of MR and zbMATH have given preliminary consideration to the scope of the revision of the MSC. We do not foresee any changes at the two-digit level; however, it is anticipated that there will be refinement of the three- and five-digit levels.
At this point, zbMATH and MR welcome additional community input into the process. Comments should be submitted through the Web at msc2020.org. You may also send email to feedback@msc2020.org. All information about the MSC revision is jointly shared by MR and zbMATH. This input will be of great value as the process moves forward.
Edward Dunne, Executive Editor, Mathematical Reviews
Klaus Hulek, Editor-in-Chief, zbMATH
Please provide MSC coding for nets, filters, lexicographical order relations
Thank you for your suggestion. I will forward it to msc2020.org.
Please there should be code for impulsive differential equations.If not given already thanks.
Thank you for your comment. MSC2010 has the class: 35R12 “Impulsive partial differential equations”.
Would you know where I can find the (exact) mathematics fields and sub-fields for 12C20 and 81C05? I know that the primary fields are “Field Theory & Polynomials” and “Quantum Theory” respectively but I can’t find any further description in MSC2010 list of codes.
Thank you in advance.
The full version of the MSC2010 codes is available in at least three places:
From MathSciNet: https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/freeTools.html?version=2
From zbMATH: https://zbmath.org/classification/
From the MSC2010 website: http://msc2010.org/resources/MSC/2010/info/
The answers to your specific questions are:
12C20=”Cyclotomy” in 12C=”Finite fields, and finite commutative rings (number-theoretic aspects)’ in 12=”Field theory and polynomials”
81C05=”Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other quantum mechanical equations” in 81C=”General mathematical topics and methods in quantum mechanics” in 81=”Quantum theory”