Moscow Mathematical Society
The Moscow Mathematical Society (MMO, Russian Московское математическое общество ) is a society of mathematicians in Moscow .
history
The Moscow Mathematical Society was founded in September 1864 by the mathematician Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Braschman , member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and since 1834 professor of applied mathematics at Lomonosov University , who was also its first president. He worked with August Juljewitsch Dawidow (1823-1885), who was also a professor at Lomonossow University and Braschman's successor as president of the society. With the exception of Pafnuti Lwowitsch Tschebyschow (who had studied with Braschman in Moscow), the founding members of the society all came from Moscow, but the society saw itself as a promoter of mathematics throughout Russia and members from outside Moscow and abroad soon joined the group. Her magazine Matematitscheskii sbornik began to appear in 1866 (the publication of which was interrupted from 1919 to 1924).
Society was also shaped by the golden years of Moscow mathematics in the 1920s and 1930s, which began with the focus on real analysis and measure theory in the school of Dmitri Fyodorowitsch Jegorow and Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Lusin , from which Andrei Kolmogorov ( Student of Lusin) and the topologist Pavel Alexandrow emerged , whose student Lev Pontryagin was also very influential. Another golden age began in 1953 with the mathematicians who studied at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (Mech-Mat) at Lomonosov University after the Second World War. Igor Schafarewitsch (who developed algebraic geometry and number theory ) and Israel Gelfand's seminar , which had a broad mathematical spectrum, provided school education . From the 1960s onwards, Kolmogorow's student Vladimir Arnold , Yuri Manin and Sergei Petrovich Novikov also had a great influence. A decline set in when official pressure began to make itself felt at the end of the 1960s, which among other things led to the fact that no Jewish students were admitted to doctoral studies at the Mech-Mat and no Jewish scientists were employed there or at the Steklow Institute. The reason was the first protest movements in the 1960s, which had been massively supported by mathematicians at the Mech-Mat.
The Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society is published in English by the American Mathematical Society .
The Moscow Mathematical Society awards a prize for young mathematicians, for example Vladimir Arnold (1958), Sergei Novikow (1964), Alexander Varchenko (1973), Viktor Anatoljewitsch Wassiljew (1985), Ilya Pjatetskij-Shapiro , Eugene Dynkin (1951), Alexander Beilinson and Juri Alexandrovich Neretin received.
President
- Nikolai Braschman (1864–1866)
- August Juljewitsch Dawidow (1866–1885)
- Wassili Jakowlewitsch Zinger (1886-1891)
- Nikolai Vasilyevich Bugayev (1891–1903)
- Pawel Alexejewitsch Nekrasow (1903-1905)
- Nikolai Jegorowitsch Zhukovsky (1905–1921)
- Boleslaw Kornelijewitsch Mlodsijewski (1921–1923)
- Dmitri Jegorow (1923-1930)
- Ernst Kolman (1930–1932)
- Pawel Sergejewitsch Alexandrov (1932–1964)
- Andrei Nikolajewitsch Kolmogorow (1964–1966)
- Israel Gelfand (1966–1970)
- Igor Rostislavowitsch Schafarewitsch (1970–1973)
- Andrei Kolmogorow (1973–1985)
- Sergei Petrovich Novikov (1985–1996)
- Vladimir Igorewitsch Arnold (1996-2010)
- Viktor Anatoljewitsch Wassiljew (from 2010)
literature
- Smilka Zdravkovska, Peter Duren (Editor): The golden ages of Moscow Mathematics . American Mathematical Society, 2007.
- SS Demidov, VM Tikhomirov, TA Tokareva: The Moscow Mathematical Society , 2 parts, EMS Newsletter, December 2003, pp. 17-19, March 2004, pp. 25-27, EMS Newsletters
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Before that there was an attempt to found the company in 1810, but it was abandoned again in 1811
- ↑ Wladimir Michailowitsch Tichomirow On Moscow Mathematics - then and now , in Zdravkovska, Duren The Golden Age of Moscow Mathematics , AMS 2007