London Mathematical Society

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The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is the leading mathematicians' association in England.

history

The association was founded on January 16, 1865. The first president was Augustus De Morgan , professor of mathematics at University College London , with whom the society was initially associated. The initiative came from De Morgan's son George and his friend Arthur Ranyard. The earliest meetings were also held at University College, but soon afterward the Society moved to Burlington House , Piccadilly , the seat of the Royal Academy of Arts . The LMS had a single room there as a “guest” of the Royal Astronomical Society. The first activities of the association were lectures and the publication of a scientific journal.

The LMS served as a model for the founding of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 1888.

The company was given a royal charter as a charter in 1965, a century after it was founded . In 1998 the Association moved from its offices at Burlington House to De Morgan House to accommodate staff and lecture rooms. De Morgan House is located at 57-58 Russell Square , Bloomsbury . There they are again in the neighborhood of the University College, whose lecture rooms they use.

activities

LMS headquarters in De Morgan House in Russell Square in Bloomsbury

The LMS publishes books and annual reports. It also organizes math conferences, grants funding to advance math research and education, and awards some prizes and grants for excellent math research.

Your main magazines are:

  • the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, from 1969, bimonthly, reviews, shorter research articles, biographies
  • the Journal of the London Mathematical Society, from 1926, bimonthly, not too long research article
  • the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, from 1865, bimonthly, longer research articles
  • the Transactions of the London Mathematical Society (since 2013)

They also publish the Journal of Topology, Mathematika (from 2010, with University College London), Compositio Mathematica (taken over by Kluwer in 2004) and publish Nonlinearity (from 1989) with the Institute of Physics . They publish a series of monographs and the Lecture Notes of the London Mathematical Society (published by Cambridge University Press), Student Texts and the History of Mathematics series with the American Mathematical Society. They also publish English translations of Russian journals, the Russian Mathematical Surveys , Izvestiya: Mathematics and Sbornik: Mathematics (with the Russian Academy of Sciences and Turpion) and the Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society (with the American Mathematical Society).

Prices

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In addition, the company gives every three years together with the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications , the David Crighton Medal .

President

Almost all presidents of the London Mathematical Society were also members (" Fellows ") of the Royal Society . The only exception was the very first President Augustus De Morgan , who turned down membership in the Royal Society. The first six presidents of the London Mathematical Society had all become members in the year it was founded.

literature

  • Susan Margaret Oakes, Alan Robson Pears, Adrian Clifford Rice: The Book of Presidents 1865–1965. London Mathematical Society, 2005, ISBN 0-9502734-1-4 .

Web links

Commons : London Mathematical Society  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LMS President Designate Announced (announcement on the LMS homepage of June 25, 2020)