Edinburgh Mathematical Society

The Edinburgh Mathematical Society (EMS ) is the union of Scottish mathematician.

The Edinburgh Mathematical Society was founded in 1883 by school Lehreren AY Fraser and A. J. G. Barclay and the assistant Cargill G. Knott of Physics Professor Peter Guthrie Tait and is therefore not academic origin. Seven of the first ten presidents were school teachers. At the first meeting on February 2, 1883 Peter Guthrie Tait and the mathematician George Chrystal of Edinburgh University were admitted as honorary members.

Since 1884, the Company, the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society publishes.

The EMS expanded rapidly from Edinburgh throughout Scotland from. The regular meetings were moved to Glasgow in March 1900 more venues were St Andrews (first 1922), Dundee ( in 1930 ) and Aberdeen ( in 1937 ).

Edmund Whittaker, Chrystal's successor, suggested in 1913 to a mathematical colloquium in Edinburgh. This was continued after the war and published in 1926 at the instigation of Herbert Westren Turnbull to St Andrews. This St. Andrews Colloquia are held approximately every four years until today.

The EMS gives every four years, with prize money of 500 pounds Whittaker Prize to outstanding young mathematicians who have a connection to Scotland.