Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society
The St. Petersburg Mathematical Society (Russian Санкт - Петербургское математическое общество ) is a mathematical club in Saint Petersburg. They changed their name over the years as well as the city itself
History
The company was founded in 1890 by Vasily Grigoryevich Imschenetski ( 1832-1892 ), who founded a similar company before in Kharkiv and until his death in 1892 was its first president. Saint Petersburg was then the main mathematical center of Russia, and the traditionally since Leonard Euler had worked at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. The Academy was before and at first remained continue in addition to the various universities in the focus of the mathematical life in Saint Petersburg.
1905, the Company entered temporarily again ( President at that time was to succeed Imschenetski the Polish mathematician Julian Sochoki Karol ( 1842-1927 ), or Russian Julian Wassiljewtisch Sochotski ). The company was filled with life only after the October Revolution, promoted by Vladimir Steklov and AV Vasilyev, who was its president from 1921, followed in 1923 by Nikolai Maximowitsch Gunter ( 1871-1941 ), author of a well-known mathematical problem collection. At that time, significant mathematicians and theoretical physicists like Delone, Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann ( but in 1925 died ), Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov, Tamarkin, Vladimir Fock, Sergei Bernstein, Galerkin, Besikowitsch, James Victor Uspensky in Saint Petersburg, which was then Petrograd from 1924 called Leningrad. Tamarkin, Besikowitsch and Uspensky fled or left in the 1920s, the Soviet Union. Another Mathematical Centre came in Saint Petersburg, add the Steklov Institute, founded in 1921, but the 1934 for the most part moved to Moscow, as well as the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Official print 1930 led to the closure of the company. Applied had the Vice President Smirnov himself, who wanted to protect the President Günter and other exposed members. A start-up efforts by Smirnov, Alexander Danilovich Aleksandrov and others led in 1953 to establish a mathematical seminar and then in 1959 to a reestablishment of the Company. Its first president was Yuri Linnik, Smirnov was honorary president. Presidents from 1965 SM Lozinski, from 1985 Dmitri Konstantinovich Faddejew, from 1990 Olga Ladyschenskaja, 1998 Anatoli Werschik.
1926-1929 they also published its own journal (Journal of the Leningrad Physico- Mathematical Society ). Later there was a magazine published in English translation in American Mathematical Society: Proceedings of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society.
International symbol of the company is SPbMS.
Behalf of the Company
- St. Petersburg Mathematical Society, 1890-1905. From 1905, rested the activities.
- Petrograd Physical and Mathematical Society, 1921 -1930
- Leningrad Mathematical Society, 1959-1990
- St. Petersburg Mathematical Society, from 1990.
Honorary Members
Honorary members were Alexander D. Alexandrov, Vladimir Smirnov, Sergei Bernstein, Olga Ladyschenskaja, Mark Krein, Leonid Kantorovich, Andrei Markov, Nikolai Alexandrovich Shanin, Victor Zalgaller, Solomon Grigorjewitsch Michlin.
Prices
The Society awards as their Moscow counterparts prices. It has been awarded since 1962 an annual prize for young mathematicians whose support among other Masja (1962), Boris Borisovich Wenkow (1963 ), Yuri Vladimirovich Matijassewitsch (1970), Yakov Eliashberg (1973 ), Eugene Dynkin (1976 ), Oleg Viro (1975 ), Andrei Suslin (1977 ), Alexander Rudolfowitsch Its (1981 ), Alexander Merkurjev (1982 ), Mikhail Ljubitsch ( Lyubich 1987), Evgeni Sklyanin (1983 ), Nicolai Reshetikhin (1988 ), Grigori Perelman (1991 ), Dmitri Burago (1992 ), IB Fesenko (1992 ) were.
Many of the winners were later known mathematician, like Perelman, who solved the Poincaré conjecture, in public but became even more famous, when he refused to take it to the Fields Medal in reception. Unlike Perelman, who retired still lives in St. Petersburg, many of the winners and other talented mathematicians had left the country after the break in 1990.