Belgian Mathematical Society
The Belgian Mathematical Society (French: Société Mathématique de Belgique, Dutch: Belgisch Wiskundig Genootschap) was founded in 1921, among others by the physicist Théophile de Donder , Alfred Errera and Lucien Godeaux (1887-1975, algebraic geometry). The mathematician Charles-Jean de La Vallée Poussin , the mathematician Henri Bosmans and the astrophysicist Georges Lemaître were also active in their early years . The company is based in Brussels . Foreign mathematicians and physicists were soon invited to give lectures, such as Henri Lebesgue (lectures on constructions with compasses and ruler ) and Robert Andrews Millikan ( electron theory ). From 1947 the topologist and philosopher of science Guy Hirsch (1915–1993) became secretary of the society (and editor of its bulletin) and managed it from his apartment from 1953 until his death in 1993.
Since 1947/48 the association has published the journal Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society , which appears five times a year. Prior to that, the Society's communications appeared as part of the Mathesis magazine . The magazine Simon Stevin has also been included in the Bulletin since 1994 . There is also its own electronic newsletter.
The Society organizes congresses with other mathematical societies, for example in 1996 in Antwerp with the American Mathematical Society , the Dutch Mathematical Society and the Luxembourg Mathematical Society, in 1999 in Brussels with the London Mathematical Society and in 2001 in Liège with the DMV . The Belgian Mathematical Society is a member of the European Mathematical Society .