Mathematical student society

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Under the name Mathematische Schülergesellschaft (MSG), associations were founded in a number of university towns in the GDR in the 1970s, in which mathematically gifted students from seventh to twelfth grade were supported. The main means of funding were weekly afternoon courses and the so-called “math camps” during the summer holidays. The lessons were given by university teaching staff and students from the respective mathematics faculty. The mathematical student societies were integrated into the GDR's system of promoting talented students in the field of mathematics and the natural sciences, which included special mathematical schools , special classes at universities, math Olympiads and the screening and selection of talented students in schools. Some of the mathematical student societies or their successor associations still exist today.

Mathematical student societies

Berlin

The Mathematical Student Society in Berlin was founded in October 1970 as a joint institution of the Magistrate of East Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin . From its founding until 1973, the management of the MSG was in the hands of Wolfgang Rautenberg , a lecturer at Humboldt University. After an interim of one year, during which the MSG was provisionally headed by Manfred Rehm von, Josef Nietzsch , mathematics professor at Humboldt University , took over in 1974 . Nietzsch headed the Berlin MSG for almost thirty years. In 1974 the MSG introduced a uniform teaching program for the courses in grades 7 to 12. In 1983 the Euler Committee of the Mathematical Society of the GDR , an organization of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , awarded the MSG the honorary title of " Leonhard Euler ". In 2003 the mathematics lecturer Ingmar Lehmann took over the management of the MSG. In 2009 the Leipzig foundation BG Teubner awarded the MSG a sponsorship award.

Leipzig

The first summer camps for mathematically gifted students in the Leipzig district took place in 1964. The camps were organized jointly by the Department of Popular Education at the Leipzig District Council and the Mathematics Section of the Karl Marx University of Leipzig (KMU). From 1965 to 1990 the Leipzig math camps took place in central pioneer camps . In December 1974 a mathematical school society was founded in Leipzig, which was later named " GW Leibniz ".

literature

  • Hans-Gert Gränke (Ed.): 10 years LSGM - 30 years MSG to promote mathematically talented schoolchildren in the Leipzig region . Leipzig 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Mathematical Student Society on the website of the Mathematical Student Society in Berlin. (Retrieved December 11, 2010.)
  2. ↑ Horst Hunecke: Mathematics Specialist Camp 1964–1992 . In: Hans-Gert Gränke (Ed.): 10 years LSGM - 30 years MSG . Leipzig 2005, pp. 45-55.
  3. ↑ Günter Deweß: The foundation of the Mathematical Society students Leipzig 1974 . In: Hans-Gert Gränke (Ed.): 10 years LSGM - 30 years MSG . Leipzig 2005, pp. 45-55.