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The Danish Mathematical Society (Dansk Matematisk Forening) is a society of
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mathematicians founded in 1873 at the University of Copenhagen, a year after the French Mathematical Society. According to the society website, it has "the purpose of acting for the benefit of mathematics in research and education."


History

The society was founded after the idea of Thorvald N. Thiele. The first committee was composed of Thiele, Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen and
Julius Petersen Julius Peter Christian Petersen (16 June 1839, Sorø, West Zealand – 5 August 1910, Copenhagen) was a Danish mathematician. His contributions to the field of mathematics led to the birth of graph theory. Biography Petersen's interests i ...
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Presidents

* Johan Jensen (1892–1903) *
Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen (11 April 1844 – 14 June 1917) was a Danish politician, minister, army officer, businessman and inventor. He was War Minister in the Deuntzer Cabinet 1901–1905. Career He began his military career in 1859 and serv ...
(1903–1910) * Niels Nielsen (1910–1917) *
Johannes Mollerup Johannes Mollerup (3 December 1872 – 27 June 1937) was a Danish mathematician.Harald Bohr (1926–1929, 1937–1951) *
Børge Jessen Børge Christian Jessen (19 June 1907 – 20 March 1993) was a Denmark, Danish mathematician best known for his work in Mathematical analysis, analysis, specifically on the Riemann zeta function, and in geometry, specifically on Hilbert's third pr ...
(1954–1958) *
Werner Fenchel Moritz Werner Fenchel (; 3 May 1905 – 24 January 1988) was a mathematician known for his contributions to geometry and to optimization theory. Fenchel established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theor ...
(1958–1962) *
Bodil Branner Bodil Branner (born 5 February 1943, in Aarhus) is a retired Danish mathematician, one of the founders of European Women in Mathematics and a former chair of the Danish Mathematical Society. Her research concerned holomorphic dynamics and the his ...
(1998–2002)


See also

* List of Mathematical Societies


External links

* K. Ramskov
The Danish Mathematical Society through 125 Years
''Historia Mathematica'', 2000.

English webpage * O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F.,
Danish Mathematical Society
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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 mathemati ...
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