The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
s dedicated to the interests of
mathematical
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research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.
The society is one of the four parts of the
Joint Policy Board for Mathematics
The Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) consists of the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
The Board has ne ...
and a member of the
Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) is an umbrella organization of seventeen professional societies in the mathematical sciences in the United States.
It and its member societies are recognized by the International Mathematical ...
.
History
The AMS was founded in 1888 as the New York Mathematical Society, the brainchild of
Thomas Fiske
Thomas Scott Fiske (1865–January 10, 1944) was an American mathematician.
He was born in New York City and graduated in 1885 (Ph.D., 1888) from Columbia University, where he was a fellow, assistant, tutor, instructor, and adjunct professor un ...
, who was impressed by the
London Mathematical Society on a visit to England.
John Howard Van Amringe
John Howard Van Amringe (April 3, 1836 – September 10, 1915) was an American educator and mathematician.
Life and career
Van Amringe was born in Philadelphia on April 3, 1835. He was a son of William Frederick Van Amringe (1791–1873) and S ...
was the first president and Fiske became secretary. The society soon decided to publish a journal, but ran into some resistance, due to concerns about competing with the
American Journal of Mathematics
The ''American Journal of Mathematics'' is a bimonthly mathematics journal published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
History
The ''American Journal of Mathematics'' is the oldest continuously published mathematical journal in the United S ...
. The result was the ''
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
The ''Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society'' is a quarterly mathematical journal published by the American Mathematical Society.
Scope
It publishes surveys on contemporary research topics, written at a level accessible to non-experts. I ...
'', with Fiske as editor-in-chief. The de facto journal, as intended, was influential in increasing membership. The popularity of the ''Bulletin'' soon led to
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
The ''Transactions of the American Mathematical Society'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society. It was established in 1900. As a requirement, all articles must be more than 15 p ...
and
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, which were also ''de facto'' journals.
In 1891
Charlotte Angas Scott
Charlotte Angas Scott (8 June 1858 – 10 November 1931) was a British mathematician who made her career in the United States and was influential in the development of American mathematics, including the mathematical education of women. Scott ...
of Britain became the first woman to join the AMS, then called the New York Mathematical Society.
The society reorganized under its present name (American Mathematical Society) and became a national society in 1894, and that year Scott became the first woman on the first Council of the society.
In 1927
Anna Pell-Wheeler became the first woman to present a lecture at the society's Colloquium.
In 1951 there was a south-eastern sectional meeting of the
Mathematical Association of America in
Nashville. The citation delivered at the 2007 MAA awards presentation, where
Lee Lorch received a standing ovation, recorded that:
:"''
Lee Lorch, the chair of the mathematics department at
Fisk University, and three Black colleagues,
Evelyn Boyd (now Granville), Walter Brown, and H. M. Holloway came to the meeting and were able to attend the scientific sessions. However, the organizer for the closing banquet refused to honor the reservations of these four mathematicians. (Letters in Science, August 10, 1951, pp. 161–162 spell out the details). Lorch and his colleagues wrote to the governing bodies of the AMS
merican Mathematical Societyand
MAA seeking bylaws against discrimination. Bylaws were not changed, but non-discriminatory policies were established and have been strictly observed since then.''"
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for Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Distinguished Service to Mathematics Award.
Also in 1951, the American Mathematical Society's headquarters moved from
New York City
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to
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...
. The society later added an office in
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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in 1965 and an office in
Washington, D.C.
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in 1992.
In 1954 the society called for the creation of a new teaching degree, a Doctor of Arts in Mathematics, similar to a PhD but without a research thesis.
In the 1970s, as reported in "A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents' Perspectives", by
Lenore Blum
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, "In those years the AMS
merican Mathematical Societywas governed by what could only be called an 'old boys network,' closed to all but those in the inner circle."
Mary W. Gray
Mary Lee Wheat Gray (born April 8, 1938) is an American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer. She is the author of books and papers in the fields of mathematics, mathematics education, computer science, applied statistics, economic equity, dis ...
challenged that situation by "sitting in on the Council meeting in Atlantic City. When she was told she had to leave, she refused saying she would wait until the police came. (Mary relates the story somewhat differently: When she was told she had to leave, she responded she could find no rules in the by-laws restricting attendance at Council meetings. She was then told it was by 'gentlemen's agreement.' Naturally Mary replied 'Well, obviously I'm no gentleman.') After that time, Council meetings were open to observers and the process of democratization of the Society had begun." Also, in 1971 the AMS established its
Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences
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(JCW), which later became a joint committee of multiple scholarly societies.
Julia Robinson
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was the first female president of the American Mathematical Society (1983–1984) but was unable to complete her term as she was suffering from leukemia.
In 1988 the
Journal of the American Mathematical Society was created, with the intent of being the flagship journal of the AMS.
Meetings
The AMS, along with more than a dozen other organizations, holds the largest annual research mathematics meeting in the world, the
Joint Mathematics Meeting The Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) is a mathematics conference hosted annually in early January by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Frequently, several other national mathematics organizations also participate. The meeting is the largest ...
, in early January. The 2019 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore drew approximately 6,000 attendees. Each of the four regional sections of the AMS (Central, Eastern, Southeastern, and Western) holds meetings in the spring and fall of each year. The society also co-sponsors meetings with other international mathematical societies.
Fellows
The AMS selects an annual class of Fellows who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of mathematics.
Publications
The AMS publishes
Mathematical Reviews, a database of reviews of mathematical publications, various journals, and books. In 1997 the AMS acquired the
Chelsea Publishing Company The Chelsea Publishing Company was a publisher of mathematical books, based in New York City, founded in 1944 by Aaron Galuten while he was still a graduate student at Columbia
Columbia may refer to:
* Columbia (personification), the historical ...
, which it continues to use as an imprint. In 2017, the AMS acquired the MAA Press, the book publishing program of the Mathematical Association of America. The AMS will continue to publish books under the MAA Press imprint.
Journals:
* General
** ''
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
The ''Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society'' is a quarterly mathematical journal published by the American Mathematical Society.
Scope
It publishes surveys on contemporary research topics, written at a level accessible to non-experts. I ...
'' — published quarterly
** ''Communications of the American Mathematical Society'' — online only
** ''Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical Society'' — online only
** ''
Journal of the American Mathematical Society'' — published quarterly
** ''
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
''Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society'' is a mathematical journal published in six volumes per year, totalling approximately 33 individually bound numbers, by the American Mathematical Society. It is intended to carry papers on new mathema ...
'' — published six times per year
** ''
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
''Notices of the American Mathematical Society'' is the membership journal of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), published monthly except for the combined June/July issue. The first volume appeared in 1953. Each issue of the magazine since ...
'' — published monthly, one of the most widely read mathematical periodicals
** ''
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society'' — published monthly
** ''
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
The ''Transactions of the American Mathematical Society'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society. It was established in 1900. As a requirement, all articles must be more than 15 p ...
'' — published monthly
* Subject-specific
** ''Conformal Geometry and Dynamics'' — online only
** ''Journal of Algebraic Geometry'' – published quarterly
** ''
Mathematics of Computation
''Mathematics of Computation'' is a bimonthly mathematics journal focused on computational mathematics. It was established in 1943 as ''Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation'', obtaining its current name in 1960. Articles older than fiv ...
'' — published quarterly
** ''
Mathematical Surveys and Monographs''
** ''Representation Theory'' — online only
* Translation Journals
** ''St. Petersburg Mathematical Journal''
** ''
Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics''
** ''Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society''
** ''Sugaku Expositions''
Proceedings and Collections:
Advances in Soviet MathematicsAmerican Mathematical Society TranslationsAMS/IP Studies in Advanced MathematicsCentre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) Proceedings & Lecture NotesContemporary MathematicsIMACS: Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer ScienceFields Institute CommunicationsProceedings of Symposia in Applied MathematicsProceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
Prizes
Some prizes are awarded jointly with other mathematical organizations. See specific articles for details.
*
Bôcher Memorial Prize
The Bôcher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society). It is awarded every three years (formerly every five year ...
*
Cole Prize The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of twenty-two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number ...
*
David P. Robbins Prize
*
Morgan Prize
:''Distinguish from the De Morgan Medal awarded by the London Mathematical Society.''
The Morgan Prize (full name Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student) is an annual award given to an un ...
*
Fulkerson Prize
The Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of $1,500 each are presented at e ...
*
Leroy P. Steele Prize
The Leroy P. Steele Prizes are awarded every year by the American Mathematical Society, for distinguished research work and writing in the field of mathematics. Since 1993, there has been a formal division into three categories.
The prizes have b ...
s
*
Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics is a $5000 prize awarded, every three years, for an outstanding contribution to "applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense." It was endowed in 1967 in honor of Norbert Wiener by MIT's m ...
*
Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
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The Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry is an award granted by the American Mathematical Society for notable research in geometry or topology. It was founded in 1961 in memory of Oswald Veblen. The Veblen Prize is now worth US$5000, and is ...
Outreach
The AMS creates outreach materials aimed at middle school, high school, and college students. These include:
Postersabout mathematicians and mathematics
Mathematical Moments posters and interviews about applications of math to science and society
Math in the Media a monthly rundown of news articles that mention math, paired with classroom activities on the relevant math concepts.
Typesetting
The AMS was an early advocate of the typesetting program
TeX
Tex may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Tex (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname
* Joe Tex (1933–1982), stage name of American soul singer Joseph Arrington Jr.
Entertainment
* ''Tex'', the Italian ...
, requiring that contributions be written in it and producing its own packages
AMS-TeX
AMS-LaTeX is a collection of LaTeX document classes and packages developed for the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Its additions to LaTeX include the typesetting of multi-line and other mathematical statements, document classes, and fonts c ...
and
AMS-LaTeX
AMS-LaTeX is a collection of LaTeX document classes and packages developed for the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Its additions to LaTeX include the typesetting of multi-line and other mathematical statements, document classes, and fonts c ...
. TeX and LaTeX are now ubiquitous in mathematical publishing.
Presidents
The AMS is led by the President, who is elected for a two-year term, and cannot serve for two consecutive terms.
1888–1900
*
John Howard Van Amringe
John Howard Van Amringe (April 3, 1836 – September 10, 1915) was an American educator and mathematician.
Life and career
Van Amringe was born in Philadelphia on April 3, 1835. He was a son of William Frederick Van Amringe (1791–1873) and S ...
(New York Mathematical Society) (1888–1890)
*
Emory McClintock (New York Mathematical Society) (1891–94)
*
George Hill (1895–96)
*
Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Nov ...
(1897–98)
*
Robert Woodward (1899–1900)
1901–1950
*
Eliakim Moore (1901–02)
*
Thomas Fiske
Thomas Scott Fiske (1865–January 10, 1944) was an American mathematician.
He was born in New York City and graduated in 1885 (Ph.D., 1888) from Columbia University, where he was a fellow, assistant, tutor, instructor, and adjunct professor un ...
(1903–04)
*
William Osgood (1905–06)
*
Henry White (1907–08)
*
Maxime Bôcher
Maxime Bôcher (August 28, 1867 – September 12, 1918) was an American mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as ''Trigonometry'' and ''Analytic Geometry''. ...
(1909–10)
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Henry Fine (1911–12)
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Edward Van Vleck (1913–14)
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Ernest Brown (1915–16)
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Leonard Dickson
Leonard Eugene Dickson (January 22, 1874 – January 17, 1954) was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract algebra, in particular the theory of finite fields and classical groups, and is also reme ...
(1917–18)
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Frank Morley
Frank Morley (September 9, 1860 – October 17, 1937) was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry. Among his mathematical accomplishments was the discovery and proof of the celebr ...
(1919–20)
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Gilbert Bliss (1921–22)
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Oswald Veblen
Oswald Veblen (June 24, 1880 – August 10, 1960) was an American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. He proved the Jordan curve theorem in 1905; while this was lon ...
(1923–24)
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George Birkhoff
George David Birkhoff (March 21, 1884 – November 12, 1944) was an American mathematician best known for what is now called the ergodic theorem. Birkhoff was one of the most important leaders in American mathematics in his generation, and during ...
(1925–26)
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Virgil Snyder
right
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In 1886 Snyder matriculated at Iowa State College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1889. He attended Cornell University ...
(1927–28)
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Earle Raymond Hedrick
Earle Raymond Hedrick (September 27, 1876 – February 3, 1943), was an American mathematician and a vice-president of the University of California.
Education and career
Hedrick was born in Union City, Indiana.
After undergraduate work at ...
(1929–30)
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Luther Eisenhart (1931–32)
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Arthur Byron Coble (1933–34)
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Solomon Lefschetz
Solomon Lefschetz (russian: Соломо́н Ле́фшец; 3 September 1884 – 5 October 1972) was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear o ...
(1935–36)
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Robert Moore (1937–38)
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Griffith C. Evans (1939–40)
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Marston Morse
Harold Calvin Marston Morse (March 24, 1892 – June 22, 1977) was an American mathematician best known for his work on the ''calculus of variations in the large'', a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known a ...
(1941–42)
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Marshall Stone
Marshall Harvey Stone (April 8, 1903 – January 9, 1989) was an American mathematician who contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, topology and the study of Boolean algebras.
Biography
Stone was the son of Harlan Fiske Stone, who wa ...
(1943–44)
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Theophil Hildebrandt (1945–46)
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Einar Hille
Carl Einar Hille (28 June 1894 – 12 February 1980) was an American mathematics professor and scholar. Hille authored or coauthored twelve mathematical books and a number of mathematical papers.
Early life and education
Hille was born in New Y ...
(1947–48)
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Joseph L. Walsh
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(1949–50)
1951–2000
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann (; hu, Neumann János Lajos, ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest cove ...
(1951–52)
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Gordon Whyburn (1953–54)
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Raymond Wilder (1955–56)
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Richard Brauer
Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 – April 17, 1977) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular represent ...
(1957–58)
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Edward McShane (1959–60)
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Deane Montgomery
Deane Montgomery (September 2, 1909 – March 15, 1992) was an American mathematician specializing in topology who was one of the contributors to the final resolution of Hilbert's fifth problem in the 1950s. He served as President of the America ...
(1961–62)
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Joseph Doob
Joseph Leo Doob (February 27, 1910 – June 7, 2004) was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.
The theory of martingales was developed by Doob.
Early life and education
Doob was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, ...
(1963–64)
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Abraham Albert (1965–66)
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Charles B. Morrey Jr.
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Life
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(1967–68)
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Oscar Zariski
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(1969–70)
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Nathan Jacobson
Nathan Jacobson (October 5, 1910 – December 5, 1999) was an American mathematician.
Biography
Born Nachman Arbiser in Warsaw, Jacobson emigrated to America with his family in 1918. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1930 and was awar ...
(1971–72)
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Saunders Mac Lane
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Early life and education
Mac Lane was born in Norwich, Connecticut, near where his family lived in Taftvill ...
(1973–74)
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Lipman Bers
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(1975–76)
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R. H. Bing (1977–78)
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Peter Lax
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Lax has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid ...
(1979–80)
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Andrew Gleason
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(1981–82)
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Julia Robinson
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson (December 8, 1919July 30, 1985) was an American mathematician noted for her contributions to the fields of computability theory and computational complexity theory—most notably in decision problems. Her work on Hilber ...
(1983–84)
*
Irving Kaplansky
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(1985–86)
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George Mostow
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(1987–88)
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William Browder (1989–90)
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Michael Artin
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(1993–94)
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Cathleen Morawetz
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(1995–96)
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Arthur Jaffe
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Education and career ...
(1997–98)
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Felix Browder
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(1999–2000)
2001–present
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Hyman Bass
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References
External links
*Directory page at University of MichiganAuthor profilein the database zbMATH
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(2001–02)
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David Eisenbud
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(2003–04)
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James Arthur
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(2005–06)
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James Glimm
James Gilbert Glimm (born March 24, 1934) is an American mathematician, former president of the American Mathematical Society, and distinguished professor at Stony Brook University. He has made many contributions in the areas of pure and applie ...
(2007–08)
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George E. Andrews (2009–10)
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Eric M. Friedlander (2011–12)
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David Vogan
David Alexander Vogan, Jr. (born September 8, 1954) is a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who works on unitary representations of simple Lie groups.
While studying at the University of Chicago, he became a Putnam Fellow ...
(2013–14)
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Robert L. Bryant (2015–16)
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Ken Ribet
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(2017–18)
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Jill Pipher
Jill Catherine Pipher (born December 14, 1955 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) was the president of the American Mathematical Society. She began a two-year term in 2019. She is also the past-president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM, ...
(2019–20)
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Ruth Charney (2021–22)
See also
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Canadian Mathematical Society
The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) (french: Société mathématique du Canada) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research, outreach, scholarship and education in Canada. It serves the ...
*
Mathematical Association of America
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European Mathematical Society
The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The current ...
*
London Mathematical Society
*
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
* Inter ...
References
External links
*
MacTutor: The American Mathematical Society
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Organizations established in 1888
Mathematical societies
1888 establishments in New York (state)
1951 establishments in Rhode Island
Organizations based in Providence, Rhode Island