Subscriptions, including payments for periodicals for personal use, for the session November 2009–October 2010 are due on 1 November 2009. Current subscription rates are shown on a separate page.

How to pay

• If you are already paying by direct debit, and do not wish to change your choice of publications you need take no action.
• If you are paying by direct debit but wish to change your choice of publications, please download and complete the subscription form linked below. Bank accounts of members paying by direct debit will be debited with the appropriate amount on 15 January 2009.
• If you have a UK bank account and wish to to set up a direct debit, a mandate is available to download here, or by contacting the Membership Dept (email. membership@lms.ac.uk, tel. 020 7291 9977/3). The completed Direct Debit mandate should be returned with the subscription form.
• Other members should either enclose either a cheque (£ sterling or US$) or credit card details with their subscription form.

A subscription form for individual members is available for downloading as a PDF or a Word file. Please indicate your choices on the subscription form and send it, with your remittance, to Membership, London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS. 

Notes

1.     The basic subscription is exclusive of periodicals.

2.     The subscription is not payable by a member who:
(i)    is an Honorary Member; or
(ii)    has paid annual subscriptions for not less than 35 years; or
(iii)   is a representative nominated by an Institutional Member.

If you claim free basic subscription please indicate the reason clearly on the attached subscription form.

3.     Concessions are available to members who have returned to full-time education, are on a career break or in part-time working, or are unemployed or otherwise in hardship and wish to suspend their membership.  Contact membership@lms.ac.uk to enquire further.

4.     The LMS has a pricing structure that allows individual members to purchase the Bulletin, Journal and Proceedings of the LMS and Nonlinearity, for personal use only, at a substantial discount. In common with other mathematical societies, the Society regards a subscription as for personal use only if:
(a)   issues are either destroyed or held on a continuing basis among the member's personal belongings, and are not deposited even temporarily in a library, common room or other public room, and
(b)   issues are accessible to other mathematicians (or to students) only with the member's permission, given individually in each case, and
(c)    electronic subscriptions are only for personal use and may not be made accessible to other mathematicians.

Issues are the personal property of members, who would be able, without negotiation with authorities, to take the issues with them if they left their present institution or to give them to another individual who is willing to abide by these terms.

5.     The Society reserves the right to discontinue the supply of periodicals to members whose subscriptions remain unpaid by 31 January 2010 (where the subscription arrives after 31 January back issues will be supplied but with some delay).

6.     The Society is associated with the publication of four book series: the LMS Student Texts, LMS Lecture Note Series (Cambridge University Press), LMS Monographs (Princeton University Press and, for books published prior to 2004, Oxford University Press) and the joint AMS/LMS History of Mathematics Series. All these publications are available at a discount to individual members on orders placed direct with the publisher.
        For further details on the publications of the LMS, please refer to the annual publications catalogue and the web pages at www.lms.ac.uk/publications

7.     Individual members are entitled to a discount on subscriptions to the following journals (members should contact the organisations directly):

• Journal of Applied Probability: www.appliedprobability.org
• Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society: www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/mpcps
• Glasgow Mathematical Journal: www.gla.ac.uk/departments/mathematics/gmj

8.     Members of the European Mathematical Society (but only members) may also subscribe to the Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS).

Donating and leaving money to the Society

The Society has been fortunate, over its history, to receive several significant donations and legacies – among these are those from Rayleigh, Larmor and Hardy. They have been enormously valuable in enabling the Society to extend its support for mathematics and mathematicians.

The Society is increasingly active, in education, in supporting mathematics in universities and fighting for research funding. At the same time Council wishes to maintain the level of grant funding it makes, through its Schemes and committees, to support mathematicians. In order to do this it needs to increase its income.

Members are asked to consider, when paying their subscriptions, to consider making a donation to the London Mathematical Society. Each contribution, no matter how large or small, is deeply appreciated and will make an invaluable contribution to the Society’s activities in support of mathematics. 

Legacies and donations are a tax-efficient way of giving to the Society.  It is able to reclaim Gift Aid on donations made by UK tax payers, while legacies to charities are completely free of Inheritance Tax and thus the Society will receive all that you leave to it.  Notes to assist you if you are contemplating leaving a legacy to the Society in your Will are available here.  Information on Gift Aid can be found at www.hmrc.gov.uk/charities/donors/gift-aid.htm; a Gift Aid declaration form is available to download here as a PDF and Word document.

If you are contemplating making a donation or remembering the Society in your Will, please contact the Executive Secretary, Peter Cooper (peter.cooper@lms.ac.uk, 020 7291 9970).

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