German Mathematical Society
The German Mathematical Society eV, shortly DMV, represents the interests of mathematicians in society, schools and universities in Germany. The objectives of the trade association is the support of research, teaching and applications of mathematical science; The association also wants to close bring mathematics to a broad public. The DMV is also working to the international exchange of mathematicians and represents German mathematician in the European Mathematical Society ( EMS) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU ). The DMV currently has around 5,000 members.
Seat of the association is Tübingen, the office is located in Berlin. President of the DMV is Jürg Kramer (July 2013).
Activities
Once a year the DMV 's annual meeting takes place - with keynote presentations on mathematical topics, mini- symposia and the Emmy Noether lecture. Twice a year, a current research topic in mathematics is taken up at the Gauss Lecture at different University locations. Every two years the DMV journalists price of the DMV and the media price of the DMV. Since 1990, the DMV gives maximum every two years in memory of its first president, Georg Cantor Georg Cantor Medal for significant contributions to mathematics.
2008, the club was a co-organizer of the Year of Mathematics. Since then at least one student and / or a student for the best performance in mathematics, at every school where there is an intensive course in mathematics, be awarded the DMV -baccalaureate price. Since 2009, the DMV will host the " Math Month of May ", nationwide projects are organized in the who do mathematics for students or the general public popular. For school contacts, press and public relations work, the DMV maintains a network office and a school - university media office Mathematics in Berlin. People who work well except for mathematics professionally, can register as math -maker at the DMV. Exceptionally dedicated people draws the DMV as " Math makers of the month off." Math makers also STEM Ambassadors of the initiative " MINT create the future ."
Organised annually since 2002 Gauss Lecture DMV turns to a larger audience.
Publications
The association is called organ releases the German Mathematical Society. In this publication, which all members receive a quarterly published articles on various mathematical topics, articles and interviews to study and work as well as book reviews of popular science publications. Also included are Headings for new members, deaths, graduations, Habilitation, appointments, appointments, honors and awards.
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Next are the club as a scientific journal the annual report of the German Mathematical Society out.
In addition, the DMV operates the website www.mathematik.de, is compiled on the facts about mathematics. General course information formulated to mathematics and to current research are as much a part as information for students or reviews on various mathematical publications.
History
The beginnings of the German Mathematical Society date back to the 1860s: in 1867 the mathematician Alfred Clebsch pleaded for a spin-off of the mathematicians of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians ( GDNÄ ). However, a first attempt to establish a Mathematical Society in 1873 in Göttingen fizzled, in part because Clebsch, who represented the driving force that was a year ago died.
The second attempt at establishing operational Georg Cantor. He reached that the German Mathematical Society was founded in 1890 in Bremen and became its first chairman; first secretary was Felix Klein's students Walther von Dyck. Among the total of 31 founding members, David Hilbert, Felix Klein, Hermann Minkowski, Carl Runge, Carl Schilling, Rudolf Sturm and Heinrich Weber found.
The first regular annual meeting of the DMV took place in 1891 along with the GDNÄ meeting in Halle. Here preparatory Statutes and Rules of Procedure were adopted. Until 1931 met GDNÄ and DMV together. Already in the first years was introduced that participants in the annual meeting had to report on current research, which promoted the recognition of new developments. The union quickly gained internationally Rennomée; in 1902 was about one-third ( 215) of all members ( 583 ) are not from Germany. The only female member was Charlotte Angas Scott.
With the rise of applied mathematics - promoted inter alia by Felix Klein, who had called in the late 1880s, a stronger link between engineering sciences and the humanistic ideal of education committed universities - was the German Engineers and the DMV the desire for a proper representation of the applied mathematics. This led in 1922 to the founding of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics ( GAMM ). As a result, the DMV concentrated even more on the university mathematics.
During the period of National Socialism, the number of students declined generally. Particularly sharp declines in mathematics from The numbers fell from 4245 in the summer of 1932 to 306 in the summer of 1939, reasons for this were low birth cohorts, introduction or expansion of labor and military service and the establishment of non-university institutions computing. . The concurrent dismissals at universities for racial or political reasons meant that between 1933 and 1937 were dropped around 30 percent of the faculty. Numerically, therefore even improved the care of the students, but the quality of research and teaching worsened by the loss of most of the leaders, including Richard von Mises, Emil Artin, Emmy Noether and Edmund Landau, considerably.
Also, the DMV, and 1933 unaffected by the political changes was affected by the layoffs. In the same year took the Committee - the governing body of the DMV, had to choose the Management Board and Chairman - on the edge of the DMV meeting a decision, according to which members of the Committee of Aryan descent and also had to be willing to work in the sense of " national state ". The DMV board consisted at that time of Helmut Hasse, Otto Blumenthal and Ludwig Bieberbach.
1934, there was intense debate within the DMV. The trigger was that Bieberbach more professional association professional criticism of colleagues with racist arguments. Then he grabbed Harald Bohr in a public newspaper articles. Bieberbach published now - without the consent of the co-editor of Knopp and Hasse - in the club's publication " DMV -Mitteilungen" an open letter to Bohr.
The General Assembly in 1934 stood behind Bieberbach. Other disputes over the introduction of a " leader principle " in the DMV and the publication of amendments resulted in 1935 for the isolation Bieber Bach and a personal renewal of the board by Georg Hamel, Emanuel Sperner, Hasse and Knopp. As a result of the clashes many respected members left the DMV, including drilling, Hermann Weyl, who had been president in 1932, and Richard Courant.
The exclusion of Jewish members from the DMV was gradual. 1935 were excluded those who had not paid their membership fees for two years. From 1938 published in the DMV releases no more messages about the whereabouts of Jewish members and before a corresponding decree of the Ministry of Science in 1938 were excluded many Jewish members, including Blumenthal, Schur and Max Dehn.
After the Second World War, Erich Kamke initiated a new foundation of the DMV, after he had with his demand, former party members are likely to perceive any more posts in the DMV failed, which was directed particularly against the Nazi Party member and longtime chairman Wilhelm Süss. The founding of de jure took place in September 1946 in the French-occupied zone; Sweet took care of the construction of the Mathematical Research Institute in Oberwolfach, which had been created in 1944 as Imperial Institute of Mathematics.
1961, took a spin-off of the DMV members from East Germany: In 1962, the Mathematical Society of the German Democratic Republic was founded. In the same year Friedrich Hirzebruch, then President of the DMV began planning the first mathematical Collaborative Research Center ( "Theoretical Mathematics" ), which was established in Bonn in 1969 and from 1981 emerged the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.
In 1990, the Mathematical Society of the German Democratic Republic and the DMV was reunited.
From 1960, the DMV held its annual meeting in conjunction with other trade associations: Every four years, together with the ÖMG, irregularly with the GAMM and the GDM. An important event was the simultaneous alignment of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in 1998 in Berlin, what the DMV also brought a greater media coverage for the first time.
2008 DMV brought together with other partners under then -President Günter M. Ziegler the Year of Mathematics by.