The journal was founded by Antonio Mambriani in 1950, with the aim to publish the proceedings of the mathematical congress "Analisi funzionale e equazioni differenziali", . state that "Era nelle intenzioni di Antonio Mambriani raccogliere gli Atti del Convegno e con essi dare inizio alla Rivista di Matematica della Università di Parma" (), while the dedication of volume (3) 3 (1974, p.I) reads: "Nell'intento di raccogliere le relazioni tenute dagli illustri partecipanti al Convegno (fra cui R. Caccioppoli, G. Cimmino, L. Fantappiè, C. Miranda, G. Sansone, F. Severi, G. Zwirner), Antonio Mambriani ebbe l'idea di fondare un nuovo periodico dedicato alla matematica." ( (among whom R. Caccioppoli, G. Cimmino, L. Fantappiè, C. Miranda, G. Sansone, F. Severi, G. Zwirner), Antonio Mambriani had the idea of founding a new journal dedicated to mathematics.") held in Parma on June 4, 1949.See and : in the short historical note for the thirty years anniversary of the journal (1979, p. 897), the day and month are correctly stated but the year is missing. Among the participants there were Renato Caccioppoli, Gianfranco Cimmino, Luigi Fantappiè, Carlo Miranda, Giovanni Sansone, Francesco Severi and Giuseppe Zwirner:. all their contributions, except the one of Caccioppoli,See . were published in the first volume of the Journal, released in the month of December 1950. state that the first number of the journal was released between January and February 1950. Caccioppoli's conference, despite a help request sent by Mambriani to Carlo Miranda and the submitting of a shorthand draft to Caccioppoli through Miranda with praise to review and correct it for the publication, remained unpublished until 1999.See for the complete details about the rediscovery of the draft and its subsequent publication. Along with Mambriani, another person who was in the editorial board of the journal since 1950 was Bianca Manfredi.. She cured the scientific aspect of the published papers and their formal appearance up to the least details and, after working at the journal for 25 years along with Mambriani,. she served as its director for 17 years, from 1975 to 1991, showing considerable management skills., as stated in the dedication of volume (5) 2 (1993, p.I).
