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Finnish Mathematical Society
The Finnish Mathematical Society or FMS (Finnish: , SMY) is a mathematical society founded in Finland in November 1868, making it one of the oldest in the world. The FMS is based in Helsinki, and is a founding member of the European Mathematical Society. It is recognised by the International Mathematics Union. History The Finnish Mathematical Society was founded on 20 November 1868, when Finland was a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire. The first president of the Finnish Mathematical Society was Lorenz Lindelöf, a professor at University of Helsinki, which at the time had the only mathematics department in Finland. At first the official language of the FMS was Swedish, but over time it was replaced by Finnish. Student organisations were forbidden in Finland from 1852 to 1868 and replaced with "student faculties", which were led by professors. The activities of the Finnish Mathematical Society were at first guided by its origins in the student faculties, and its early meetings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematical Society
This article provides a list of mathematical societies by country. International mathematical societies * African Mathematical Union * Circolo Matematico di Palermo * European Mathematical Society * Foundations of Computational Mathematics * International Linear Algebra Society * International Mathematical Union * International Association of Mathematical Physics * International Society for Mathematical Sciences * Mathematical Optimization Society * Quaternion Society * International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation * Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Mathematical honor societies *Kappa Mu Epsilon *Mu Alpha Theta *Pi Mu Epsilon National mathematical societies Arranged as follows: Society name in English (Society name in home-language; Abbreviation if used) *American Mathematical Society *Australian Mathematical Society *Austrian Mathematical Society (Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft; ÖMG) *Bangladesh Mathematical Society *Sociedade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Ahlfors
Lars Valerian Ahlfors (18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Background Ahlfors was born in Helsinki, Finland. His mother, Sievä Helander, died at his birth. His father, Axel Ahlfors, was a professor of engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology. The Ahlfors family was Swedish-speaking, so he first attended the private school Nya svenska samskolan where all classes were taught in Swedish. Ahlfors studied at University of Helsinki from 1924, graduating in 1928 having studied under Ernst Lindelöf and Rolf Nevanlinna. He assisted Nevanlinna in 1929 with his work on Denjoy's conjecture on the number of asymptotic values of an entire function. In 1929 Ahlfors published the first proof of this conjecture, now known as the Denjoy–Carleman–Ahlfors theorem. It states that the number of asymptotic values approached by an entire function of order ρ alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scientific Organizations Established In 1868
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematical Societies
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics with the major subdisciplines of number theory, algebra, geometry, and analysis, respectively. There is no general consensus among mathematicians about a common definition for their academic discipline. Most mathematical activity involves the discovery of properties of abstract objects and the use of pure reason to prove them. These objects consist of either abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicsentities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. A ''proof'' consists of a succession of applications of deductive rules to already established results. These results include previously proved theorems, axioms, andin case of abstraction from naturesome basic properties that are considered true starting points of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacTutor History Of Mathematics Archive
The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive is a website maintained by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson and hosted by the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It contains detailed biographies on many historical and contemporary mathematicians, as well as information on famous curves and various topics in the history of mathematics. The History of Mathematics archive was an outgrowth of Mathematical MacTutor system, a HyperCard database by the same authors, which won them the European Academic Software award in 1994. In the same year, they founded their web site. it has biographies on over 2800 mathematicians and scientists. In 2015, O'Connor and Robertson won the Hirst Prize of the London Mathematical Society for their work... The citation for the Hirst Prize calls the archive "the most widely used and influential web-based resource in history of mathematics". See also * Mathematics Genealogy Project * MathWorld * PlanetMath PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ZbMATH
zbMATH Open, formerly Zentralblatt MATH, is a major reviewing service providing reviews and abstracts for articles in pure mathematics, pure and applied mathematics, produced by the Berlin office of FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure GmbH. Editors are the European Mathematical Society, FIZ Karlsruhe, and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. zbMATH is distributed by Springer Science+Business Media. It uses the Mathematics Subject Classification codes for organising reviews by topic. History Mathematicians Richard Courant, Otto Neugebauer, and Harald Bohr, together with the publisher Ferdinand Springer, took the initiative for a new mathematical reviewing journal. Harald Bohr worked in Copenhagen. Courant and Neugebauer were professors at the University of Göttingen. At that time, Göttingen was considered one of the central places for mathematical research, having appointed mathematicians like David Hilbert, Hermann Minkowski, Carl Runge, and Felix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mathematical Societies
This article provides a list of mathematical societies by country. International mathematical societies * African Mathematical Union * Circolo Matematico di Palermo * European Mathematical Society * Foundations of Computational Mathematics * International Linear Algebra Society * International Mathematical Union * International Association of Mathematical Physics * International Society for Mathematical Sciences * Mathematical Optimization Society * Quaternion Society * International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation * Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Mathematical honor societies *Kappa Mu Epsilon *Mu Alpha Theta *Pi Mu Epsilon National mathematical societies Arranged as follows: Society name in English (Society name in home-language; Abbreviation if used) *American Mathematical Society *Australian Mathematical Society *Austrian Mathematical Society (Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft; ÖMG) *Bangladesh Mathematical Society *Sociedade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antti Kupiainen
Antti Kupiainen (born 23 June 1954, Varkaus, Finland) is a Finnish mathematical physicist. Education and career Kupiainen completed his undergraduate education in 1976 at the Technical University of Helsinki and received his Ph.D. in 1979 from Princeton University under Thomas C. Spencer (and Barry Simon) with thesis ''Some rigorous results on the 1/n expansion''. As a postdoc he spent the academic year 1979/80 at Harvard University and then did research at the University of Helsinki. He became a professor of mathematics in 1989 at Rutgers University and in 1991 at the University of Helsinki. In 1984/85 he was the Loeb Lecturer at Harvard. He was several times a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. He was a visiting professor at a number of institutions, including IHES, University of California, Santa Barbara, MSRI, École normale supérieure, and Institut Henri Poincaré. He was twice an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians; his ICM t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pekka Juhana Myrberg
Pekka Juhana Myrberg (30 December 1892, Viipuri – 8 November 1976, Helsinki) was a Finnish mathematician known for developing the concept of period-doubling bifurcation in a paper published in the 1950s. The concept was further developed by Mitchell Feigenbaum during the 1970s. Myrberg received his PhD in 1916 at the University of Helsinki under Ernst Lindelöf with thesis ('On the theory of the convergence of Poincaré's series'). He began his career by teaching at a gymnasium, and then became professor extraordinarius at the University of Helsinki in 1921 and professor ordinarius in 1926. In 1952 he became the rector and then served as the chancellor of the University of Helsinki from 1952 to 1962. In 1962 he retired as professor emeritus but continued publishing mathematical papers into the 1970s. In the 1950s, Myberg published several fundamental papers on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olli Lehto
Olli Erkki Lehto (30 May 1925 in Helsinki — 31 December 2020) was a Finnish mathematician, specializing in geometric function theory, and a chancellor of the University of Helsinki. Lehto earned his PhD in 1949 from the University of Helsinki under Rolf Nevanlinna with thesis ''Anwendung orthogonaler Systeme auf gewisse funktionentheoretische Extremal- und Abbildungsprobleme''. At the University of Helsinki, Lehto was from 1961 to 1988 a professor, from 1978 the dean of science, from 1983 the rector, and from 1988 to 1993 the chancellor. From 1983 to 1990 he was Secretary of the International Mathematical Union. In 1962 he became a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia). In 1968 he was elected member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters and in 1988 he became honorary member of the same society. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1986. In 1975 he was given by the President of Finland the hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ZbMath
zbMATH Open, formerly Zentralblatt MATH, is a major reviewing service providing reviews and abstracts for articles in pure mathematics, pure and applied mathematics, produced by the Berlin office of FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure GmbH. Editors are the European Mathematical Society, FIZ Karlsruhe, and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. zbMATH is distributed by Springer Science+Business Media. It uses the Mathematics Subject Classification codes for organising reviews by topic. History Mathematicians Richard Courant, Otto Neugebauer, and Harald Bohr, together with the publisher Ferdinand Springer, took the initiative for a new mathematical reviewing journal. Harald Bohr worked in Copenhagen. Courant and Neugebauer were professors at the University of Göttingen. At that time, Göttingen was considered one of the central places for mathematical research, having appointed mathematicians like David Hilbert, Hermann Minkowski, Carl Runge, and Felix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Congress Of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be renamed as the IMU Abacus Medal), the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, Gauss Prize, and the Chern Medal are awarded during the congress's opening ceremony. Each congress is memorialized by a printed set of Proceedings recording academic papers based on invited talks intended to be relevant to current topics of general interest. Being List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers, invited to talk at the ICM has been called "the equivalent ... of an induction to a hall of fame". History Felix Klein and Georg Cantor are credited with putting forward the idea of an international congress of mathematicians in the 1890s.A. John Coleman"Mathematics without borders": a book review ''CMS Notes'', vol 31, no. 3, April 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
