Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society
The Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society ( Russian Санкт-Петербургское математическое общество ) is a mathematical association in Saint Petersburg . It changed its name over the years, as did the city itself.
history
The company was founded in 1890 by Vasily Grigoryevich Imschenetski (1832-1892), who had previously founded a similar company in Kharkiv and was its first president until his death in 1892. At that time Saint Petersburg was the main mathematical center of Russia, and it has traditionally been at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences since Leonhard Euler . The academy was before and initially continued to be the center of mathematical life in Saint Petersburg alongside the various universities.
In 1905 the company was temporarily closed again (President was the successor of Imschenetski, the Polish mathematician Julian Karol Sochoki (1842-1927), or Russian Julian Wassiljewtisch Sochotski). The society was only filled with life after the October Revolution, promoted by Vladimir Steklow and AV Wassiljew, who was its president from 1921, followed from 1923 by Nikolai Maximowitsch Günter (1871-1941), author of a well-known collection of mathematical problems. At that time, important mathematicians and theoretical physicists such as Delone , Alexander Alexandrowitsch Friedmann (who died in 1925), Wladimir Ivanovich Smirnow , Tamarkin , Wladimir Fock , Sergei Bernstein , Galerkin , Besikowitsch , James Victor Uspensky were in Saint Petersburg, which was then Petrograd and from 1924 Leningrad was called. Tamarkin, Besikowitsch and Uspensky fled or left the Soviet Union in the 1920s. The Steklow Institute , founded in 1921 in Saint Petersburg, was added as a further mathematical center, but most of it moved to Moscow in 1934, as did the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Official pressure in 1930 led to the company's closure. Vice-President Smirnov himself had applied for this, who wanted to protect President Günter and other exposed members. Efforts to found a new company by Smirnow, Alexander Danilowitsch Alexandrow and others led to the establishment of a mathematical seminar in 1953 and then to the re-establishment of the company in 1959. The first president was Juri Linnik , Smirnov was honorary president. The presidents were SM Lozinski from 1965, Dmitri Konstantinowitsch Faddejew from 1985 , Olga Ladyschenskaya from 1990 , Anatoli Vershik from 1998 , and Yuri Matiyasevich from 2008 .
From 1926 to 1929 they also published their own journal (Journal of the Leningrad Physical-Mathematical Society). Later there was also a journal published in English translation by the American Mathematical Society: Proceedings of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society.
The company's international abbreviation is SPbMS.
Company name
- Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society, 1890–1905. Activities ceased from 1905.
- Petrograd Physical and Mathematical Society, 1921–1930
- Leningrad Mathematical Society, 1959–1990
- Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society, from 1990.
Honorary members
Honorary members were Vladimir Smirnov, Alexander Alexandrow, Sergei Bernstein, Leonid Kantorowitsch , Andrei Markow junior , Mark Krein , Solomon Michlin , Olga Ladyschenskaja , Victor Salgaller , Nikolai Schanin , Anatoli Verhik , Ildar Ibragimow , Vasili Babitsch.
Prices
Like its Moscow counterpart, the company awards prizes. They have been awarding an annual prize for young mathematicians since 1962, the winners of which include Wladimir Masja (1962), Boris Wenkow (1963), Wladimir Buslajew (1964), Yuri Matijassewitsch (1970), Jakow Eliashberg (1973), Oleg Viro (1975) , Boris Tsirelson (1976), Andrei Suslin (1977), Alexander Its (1981), Alexander Merkurjev (1982), Mikhail Lyubitsch (1987), Evgeni Sklyanin (1983), Nicolai Reshetikhin (1988), Grigori Perelman (1991), Dmitri Burago (1992), Iwan Fesenko (1992), Stanislaw Smirnow (1996/97, recipient of the Fields Medal) and Grigory Michalkin (1999).
Many of the winners were later well-known mathematicians, such as Perelman, who solved the Poincaré conjecture , but became even better known in public when he refused to receive the Fields Medal for it. In contrast to Perelman, who still lives in seclusion in Saint Petersburg, many of the award winners and other talented mathematicians left the country after the upheaval in 1990.