Swiss Mathematical Society

The Swiss Mathematical Society ( SMG / SMS , French: Société Mathématique Suisse ) is a foundation based in Zurich to promote the mathematical sciences in Switzerland . The company was founded in Basel in 1910 . The Swiss Mathematical Society is a member of the European Mathematical Society .

history

Before 1800, the University of Basel and the Académie de Genève were the two most important academic institutions in the field of mathematics . With the establishment of the Federal Polytechnic in 1855, mathematics in Switzerland experienced an upgrade. For example, Richard Dedekind , Ferdinand Georg Frobenius , Adolf Hurwitz and Hermann Minkowski spent time at the Polytechnic in Zurich. The institute did not acquire the right to award doctorates until 1909, which was renamed ETH in 1911. In 1897 the first international mathematicians' congress took place in Zurich . The congress was mainly organized by mathematicians from the ETH and the University of Zurich . At that time, there was no coherent organization in the field of mathematics in Switzerland. In the course of the congress Ferdinand Rudio suggested that Euler's works be published . This challenge indirectly led to the foundation of the Swiss Mathematical Society. Rudio, who was ETH library director at the time, organized and coordinated the project. The Euler Commission was founded in 1907 and the first volume appeared in 1911. By 2007 over 70 volumes had been published.

On September 4, 1910, the SMG / SMS was founded in Basel as the Section of Swiss Natural Scientists . From September 4th to 7th this year, the Society met for the first time in the small lecture hall near the Bernoullianum . Rudolf Fueter from Basel, Henri Fehr from Geneva and Marcel Grossmann from Zurich were the founding members and the first three presidents of the society. The focus should be on "maintaining pure mathematics and promoting its progress in a national and international context". In the year it was founded, the society already had over 100 members; In 2017, the SMG / SMS had around 550 members.

Publications

On May 20, 1928, the society founded its own publication, the Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici . The first volume was published in 1929. At the beginning, Fueter took over the editing of the journal, which in the early years mostly only published articles by mathematicians working in Switzerland. The annual volume of the Commentarii is now almost 1000 pages and enjoys an international reputation thanks to its high scientific level. The Lausanne mathematics professor Eva Bayer-Fluckiger is currently editor -in- chief of the CMH.

In 1946, the journal Elements of Mathematics was founded independently of the company and was also aimed at high school teachers as a readership. This magazine became the property of the company in 1975 and has been published on its behalf ever since. The magazine's editor is currently Norbert Hungerbühler .

Congresses

After 1897 and 1932, the third International Congress of Mathematicians took place in Zurich in 1994. The SMG / SMS organized the event on behalf of the International Mathematical Union . In 2007, the SMG hosted the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics , which took place at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich .

Honorary members

With the year of appointment

President

1910–1912 Rudolf Fueter (1880–1950)
1913–1915 Henri G. Fehr (1870–1954)
1916–1917 Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936)
1918–1919 Michel Plancherel (1885–1967)
1920–1921 Louis Crelier
1922–1923 Gustave Dumas (University of Lausanne)
1924–1925 Andreas Speiser (1885–1970)
1926–1927 Ferdinand Gonseth (1890–1975) (Bern)
1928–1929 Severin Bays (Friborg)
1930–1931 Samuel Dumas (Bern)
1932–1933 Gustave Juvet (Lausanne)
1934–1935 Walter Saxer (1896–1974) (ETH Zurich)
1936–1937 Rolin Wavre (1896–1949)
1938–1939 Willy Scherrer (Bern)
1940–1941 Louis Kollros (1878–1959) (ETH Zurich)
1942–1943 Paul Buchner (mathematician) (Basel)
1944–1945 Georges de Rham (1903–1990)
1946–1947 Max Gut (University of Zurich)
1948–1949 Charles Blanc (mathematician) (University of Lausanne)
1950–1951 Albert Pfluger (1907–1993)
1952–1953 Félix Fiala (Neuchâtel)
1954–1955 Johann Jakob Burckhardt (1903–2006)
1956–1957 Eduard Stiefel (1909–1978)
1958–1959 Georges Vincent (University of Lausanne)
1960–1961 Heinrich Jecklin (University of Zurich)
1962–1963 Beno Eckmann (1917–2008)
1964–1965 Jean de Siebenthal (École Polytechnique Lausanne)
1966–1967 Heinz Huber (1926–2000) (Basel)
1968–1969 Walter Nef (Bern)
1970–1971 Roger Bader (Neuchâtel)
1972–1973 Ernst Specker (1920–2011) (ETH Zurich)
1974–1975 André Haefliger (* 1929)
1976–1977 Heinrich Kleisli (1930–2011) (Friborg)
1978–1979 André Delessert (University of Lausanne)
1980–1981 Pierre Gabriel (1933–2015) (Peter Gabriel)
1982–1983 Alain Robert (* 1941) (Neuchâtel)
1984–1985 Henri Carnal (Bern)
1986–1987 Shristi D. Chatterji (École Polytechnique Lausanne)
1988–1989 Norbert A'Campo (* 1941)
1990–1991 Urs Stammbach (* 1939) (ETH Zurich)
1992–1993 Harald Holmann (Friborg)
1994–1995 François Sigrist (Neuchâtel)
1996–1997 Hans Jarchow (University of Zurich)
1998–1999 Gerhard Wanner (Geneva)
2000–2001 Urs Würgler (Bern)
2002–2003 Rolf Jeltsch (ETH Zurich)
2004–2005 Peter Buser (* 1946) (École Polytechnique Lausanne)
2006–2007 Norbert Hungerbühler (* 1964) (Friborg)
2008–2009 Viktor Schroeder (1922–2011) (University of Zurich)
2010–2011 Bruno Colbois (Neuchâtel)
2012–2013 Christine Riedtmann (* 1952) (University of Bern)
2014–2015 Nicolas Monod (École Polytechnique Lausanne)
2016–2017 Anand Dessai (Université de Friborg)
2018–2019 Urs Lang (ETH Zurich)

literature

Urs Stammbach: Swiss Mathematical Society , European Mathematical Society Newsletter, September 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Program of the meeting published in L'Enseignement Mathématique , Volume 12 (1910), pp. 522-528

↑ Information on Ferdinand Rudio ( Memento of the original of June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ 1st annual meeting 1910 (PDF; 646 kB)
↑ Chair of the SMG / SMS
^ Annual report 2006 of the SMG / SMS, page 2 (PDF; 145 kB)
^ Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici
↑ Honorary Members

[1] Program of the meeting published in L'Enseignement Mathématique , Volume 12 (1910), pp. 522-528