Founded in 1931 by Otto Neugebauer as the printed documentation service Zentralblatt für
Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete Zentralblatt MATH (ZBMATH) celebrates its 80th anniversary in
2011. Today it is the most comprehensive and active reference database in pure and applied
mathematics worldwide. Many prominent mathematicians have been involved in this service as
reviewers or editors and have like all mathematicians left their footprints in ZBMATH in a
long list of entries describing all of their research publications in mathematics. This book
provides one review from each of the 80 years of ZBMATH. Names like Courant Kolmogorov Hardy
Hirzebruch Faltings and many others can be found here. In addition to the original reviews
the book offers the authors' profiles indicating their co-authors their favorite journals and
the time span of their publication activities. In addition to this a generously illustrated
essay by Silke Göbel describes the history of ZBMATH.
