Edinburgh Mathematical Society
The Edinburgh Mathematical Society (EMS) is the association of Scottish mathematicians .
The Edinburgh Mathematical Society was founded in 1883 by the school teachers AY Fraser and A. J. G. Barclay and the assistant Cargill G. Knott of the physics professor Peter Guthrie Tait and is thus not of university origin. Seven of the first ten presidents were school teachers. At the first meeting on February 2, 1883, Peter Guthrie Tait and the mathematician George Chrystal of Edinburgh University were accepted as honorary members.
Since 1884 the society has published the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society .
The EMS quickly expanded from Edinburgh to all of Scotland. The regular meetings were held in Glasgow from March 1900 , other venues were St Andrews (first 1922), Dundee (first 1930) and Aberdeen (first 1937).
Edmund Whittaker , Chrystals successor, suggested a mathematical colloquium in Edinburgh in 1913 . This was continued after the war and moved to St Andrews in 1926 at the instigation of Herbert Westren Turnbull . These St. Andrews Colloquia take place approximately every four years to this day.
Every four years EMS awards the £ 500 Whittaker Prize to outstanding young mathematicians with ties to Scotland .
literature
- Philip Heywood Edinburgh Mathematical Society , European Mathematical Society Newsletter, September 1999
- Marit Hartveit Death of a schoolmaster- Edinburgh Mathematical Society , European Mathematical Society Newsletter, December 2009
Web links
- Official website (English)
Remarks
- ↑ The abbreviation EMS also stands for European Mathematical Society .