It publishes articles on pure mathematics and is scientifically coordinated by the Mathematisches Seminar, an informal cooperation of mathematicians at the Universität Hamburg; its Managing Editors are Professors Vicente Córtes [de] and Tobias Dyckerhoff.

[1] Blaschke invited both Hermann Weyl and David Hilbert to the Mathematisches Seminar (in 1920 and 1921, respectively) to deliver talk series on their views concerning the Foundations of Mathematics.

[2] The first volumes of the journal contain numerous papers of famous mathematicians such as Paul Bernays, Constantin Carathéodory, G. H. Hardy & J. E. Littlewood, Jacques Herbrand, Ruth Moufang, George Pólya, and John von Neumann.

The professors of the Mathematisches Seminar of the Universität Hamburg are serving as member of the editorial board of the journal.

In those years, the following Hamburg professors were members of the editorial board: Rainer Ansorge [de], Emil Artin, Heinz Bauer, Wilhelm Blaschke, Hel Braun, Lothar Collatz, Max Deuring, Helmut Hasse, Erich Hecke, Karl Hinderer [de], Erich Kähler, Hans Rademacher, Johann Radon, Leopold Schmetterer, Emanuel Sperner, Ernst Witt, Hans Zassenhaus.