Japanese Mathematical Society

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The Japanese Mathematical Society ( Japanese 日本 数学 会 , Nihon Sūgakukai , English : Mathematical Society of Japan , MSJ) was founded in 1877 as the Mathematical Society of Tokyo ( Tōkyō Sūgaku Kaisha ) and soon afterwards in 1884 as the Physical-Mathematical Society of Tokyo ( 東京 数学物理学 会 , Tōkyō Sūgaku Butsuri Gakkai ), from which the Japanese Physical and Mathematical Society ( Nihon sūgaku butsuri gakkai ) emerged in 1918 . It is the first Japanese academic society. In 1946 it became the Mathematical and Physical Society of Japan. Since 1952 the MSJ has been organized as an association ( shadan-hōjin ) based in Taitō , Tokyo Prefecture .

history

The society was originally founded to promote the spread of Western (at that time mostly European) mathematics in Japan and as a result, many Japanese mathematicians went to Europe to study until the beginning of the 20th century. One of the first fruits of this exchange was, for example, the work of Teiji Takagi on class field theory. After the Second World War, mathematics took a great boom in Japan, marked by the Conference for Algebraic Number Theory in 1955 and later by three Fields Medals ( Heisuke Hironaka , Kunihiko Kodaira , Shigefumi Mori ) and the first Carl Friedrich Gauß Prize ( Kiyoshi Ito ) for Japanese mathematicians.

The society publishes the Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (founded 1948), the Japanese Journal of Mathematics (founded 1924) and the quarterly Sugaku (from 1947), a kind of newsletter of the society (but there is also another newsletter Sugaku Tushin) with review articles also published in translation as Sugaku Expositions by the American Mathematical Society . It publishes a series of MSJ memoirs (in two series, English and Japanese) and Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics, including conference reports. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics (published in English translation by MIT Press) is now in its fourth edition , published by the Society under the editorship of Kiyoshi Ito .

Annual meetings take place in spring and autumn. The spring prize and the publication prize are awarded at the spring meeting, the autumn prize, the Seki-Takakazu and the Takebe-Katahiro prizes at the autumn meeting. Members can present their own research at the meetings.

The Society awards several prizes, the most prestigious being the Spring Prize and the Fall Prize, which are given to members of the MSJ. The spring prize is awarded annually to outstanding mathematicians up to the age of 40 and, like the autumn prize in 1987, emerged from the Iyanaga Prize awarded from 1973 (named after Shokichi Iyanaga ). The autumn prize has been awarded without age limit since 1987. In addition, the Algebra Prize, the Geometry Prize and the Analysis Prize are awarded annually. There is also the Seki Takakazu Prize (named after the famous Japanese mathematician of the 17th century), which is awarded to people and organizations that promoted mathematics in Japan (outside of strictly mathematical activity). The Takebe Katahiro Prize for young mathematicians is named after a student of Seki and has been awarded since its 50th anniversary in 1996. A Publication Prize has existed since 2004, given to individuals or organizations for outstanding publications and publication activities.

From 2006 onwards, the society has also been sponsoring Takagi Lectures, which internationally renowned mathematicians hold twice a year. They are named after Takagi and are published in the Japanese Journal of Mathematics. The first took place in 2006 at the RIMS in Kyoto ( Stephen Smale , Spencer Bloch , Pierre-Louis Lions , Claire Voisin ).

At present (2009) the society has about 5000 members. President is (2009) Takashi Tsuboi.

Prices

Iyanaga Prize

Spring price

Autumn price

Seki Takakazu Prize

Geometry Prize

Algebra Prize

Analysis price

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ McTutor History of Mathematics for MSJ
  2. ↑ Through exchanges with foreign scientists such as André Weil , she played a role in research by Yutaka Taniyama and Gorō Shimura , which led to the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture named after them .
  3. ↑ Spring and Autumn MSJ Prize at McTutor
  4. ^ Winner of the Geometry Prize, McTutor , Winner of the Analysis Prize, McTutor , Winner of the Algebra Prize, McTutor

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