Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences is one of the world-renowned journals in mathematical and applied sciences. The journal has embarked upon a Special Issue ‘‘Methods of Mathematics and Fractional Calculus’’ through scholarly and creative work lead by the German Jordanian University in collaboration with the International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications (ICFDA’18), the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and the National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. For further information, see

http://conferences.ju.edu.jo/en/icfda2018/Home.aspx