Danish Mathematical Society

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Logo of the DMF

The Danish Mathematical Society (Danish: Dansk Matematisk Forening , DMF for short) was founded in 1873 on the initiative of the mathematician and astronomer Thorvald Nicolai Thiele at the University of Copenhagen (where there had been a faculty for mathematics and natural sciences since 1850) with the aim of promoting mathematics Research and training in Denmark. Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen and Julius Petersen were also founding members . The name Matematisk Forening was changed to Dansk Matematisk Forening in 1952 .

While society was initially focused on Denmark, it opened up in the 1920s under the influence of its President Harald Bohr . Well-known mathematicians such as Artin , Borel , Carathéodory , Carleman , Hardy , Hilbert (with whose invitation in 1921 the annual tradition of inviting well-known foreign mathematicians began), Julia , Landau , Lebesgue , Pólya , F. and M. Riesz were able to give lectures on a regular basis Society's meetings held in Copenhagen.

The Danish Mathematical Society only joined the IMU after the Second World War, primarily because Harald Bohr did not like the discrimination against mathematicians from Germany and Austria on the part of the IMU after the First World War. Due to the German occupation during the Second World War, the work of the DMF came to a standstill, Harald Bohr and Werner Fenchel had to flee to Sweden in 1943 because of their Jewish descent. But just a few years after the war, work was resumed.

In 1952, the DMF founded the scientific mathematical journal Mathematica Scandinavica and the Nordisk Matematisk Tidsskrift (NORMAT) for elementary mathematics in cooperation with the mathematical societies of Finland , Iceland , Norway and Sweden . A current electronic newsletter Matnyt is sent weekly to the members. Since the 1980s, the DMF has been organizing larger annual or semi-annual meetings, including outside of Copenhagen. Every four years one of the four Scandinavian mathematical societies organizes a Scandinavian mathematical conference. In 1987 a symposium was held on the occasion of Harald Bohr's hundredth birthday. The society published Harald Bohr's collected works in 1952 and Jakob Nielsen's in 1986 .

The DMF is a member of the European Mathematical Society . It had around 340 members in 2000.

The logo of the Danish Mathematical Society goes back to a drawing by Thomas Clausen from 1840 and shows a crescent moon in the upper part, which has the same area as the concave polygon in the lower part.

In Denmark there is also a Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, the Danish Society for Computer Science, the Danish Operations Research Society and the Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics in the mathematical field.

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  • Kurt Ramskov: The Danish Mathematical Society through 125 Years. (PDF (20S, 81kB)) Retrieved January 25, 2010 (English).
  • Bodil Branner Danish mathematical society , European Mathematical Society Newsletter March 2000 (this year Branner was president of the DMF)

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  1. ↑ In addition, the Polytechnische Lehranstalt (technical college) and a military school in Copenhagen had existed since 1829, where mathematics was also taught based on the French model. Outside of Copenhagen, Aarhus University was not added until 1954 with a mathematical faculty.
  2. ↑ Bodil Branner, EMS Newsletter March 2000, p. 14