The Swiss Mathematical Society (german: Schweizerische Mathematische Gesellschaft; french: Société Mathématique Suisse), founded in
Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese
, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
on September 4, 1910, is the national mathematical society of
Switzerland and a member society of the
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 ...
. It is notably running the scholarly journal
Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (founded by the Society in 1929) and
Elemente der Mathematik (founded in 1946), both currently published by the European Mathematical Society.
Presidents
*1910–12
Rudolf Fueter
Karl Rudolf Fueter (30 June 1880 – 9 August 1950) was a Swiss mathematician, known for his work on number theory.
Biography
After a year of graduate study of mathematics in Basel, Fueter began study in 1899 at the University of Göttingen and ...
*1913–15
Henri Fehr
Henri Fehr (Zurich, 2 February 1870 – Geneva, 2 November 1954) was a Swiss mathematician. He was the founder of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mathematical Sciences, of the journal " Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici" and of the journal ...
*1916–17
Marcel Grossmann
Marcel Grossmann (April 9, 1878 – September 7, 1936) was a Swiss mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Grossmann was a member of an old Swiss family from Zurich. His father managed a textile factory. He became a Profe ...
(ETH Zurich)
*1918–19
Michel Plancherel
*1920–21
Louis Crelier
*1922–23
Gustave Dumas (University of Lausanne)
*1924–25
Andreas Speiser
Andreas Speiser (June 10, 1885 – October 12, 1970) was a Swiss mathematician and philosopher of science.
Life and work
Speiser studied in Göttingen, starting in 1904, notably with David Hilbert, Felix Klein, Hermann Minkowski. In 1917 he becam ...
*1926–27
Ferdinand Gonseth
Ferdinand Gonseth (1890–1975) was a Swiss mathematician and philosopher.
He was born on 22 September 1890 at Sonvilier, the son of Ferdinand Gonseth, a clockmaker, and his wife Marie Bourquin. He studied at La Chaux-de-Fonds, and read physics a ...
(Bern)
*1928–29
Severin Bays (Fribourg)
*1930–31
Samuel Dumas (Bern)
*1932–33
Gustave Juvet (University of Lausanne)
*1934–35 Walter Saxer (ETH Zurich)
*1936–37
Rolin Wavre
*1938–39
Willy Scherrer (Bern)
*1940–41
Louis Kollros (ETH Zurich)
*1942–43
Paul Buchner
Paul Buchner (June, 1531 - 13 November, 1607) was a German architect, geometer, carpenter, and screw maker from Nuremberg, Germany.
Life
Buchner grew up in Nuremberg and was an apprentice carpenter and screw maker, training under his cousin ...
(Basel)
*1944–45
Georges de Rham
Georges de Rham (; 10 September 1903 – 9 October 1990) was a Swiss mathematician, known for his contributions to differential topology.
Biography
Georges de Rham was born on 10 September 1903 in Roche, a small village in the canton of Vaud in ...
*1946–47
Max Gut (Universität Zurich)
*1948–49
Charles Blanc
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Life and career
He was the younger brother of the French socialist politician and historian Louis Blanc. After the February Revolution of 184 ...
(University of Lausanne)
*1950–51
Albert Pfluger
*1952–53
Félix Fiala (Neuchâtel)
*1954–55
Johann Jakob Burckhardt
*1956–57
Eduard Stiefel
Eduard L. Stiefel (21 April 1909 – 25 November 1978) was a Swiss mathematician. Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Magnus Hestenes, he invented the conjugate gradient method, and gave what is now understood to be a partial construction of the ...
(ETH Zurich)
*1958–59
Georges Vincent (University of Lausanne)
*1960–61
Heinrich Jecklin (University of Zurich)
*1962–63
Beno Eckmann
Beno Eckmann (31 March 1917 – 25 November 2008) was a Swiss mathematician who made contributions to algebraic topology, homological algebra, group theory, and differential geometry.
Life
Born in Bern, Eckmann received his master's degree from ...
(ETH Zurich)
*1964–65
Jean de Siebenthal (EPF Lausanne)
*1966–67
Heinz Huber
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(Basel)
*1968–69
Walter Nef (Bern)
*1970–71
Roger Bader (Neuchâtel)
*1972–73
Ernst Specker
Ernst Paul Specker (11 February 1920, Zurich – 10 December 2011, Zurich) was a Swiss mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine's New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen ...
(ETH Zurich)
*1974–75
André Haefliger
André Haefliger (born 22 May 1929 in Nyon, Switzerland) is a Swiss mathematician who works primarily on topology.
Education and career
Haefliger went to school in Nyon and then attended his final years at Collège Calvin in Geneva. He studied ...
(Geneva)
*1976–77
Heinrich Kleisli
Heinrich Kleisli (; October 19, 1930 – April 5, 2011) was a Swiss mathematician. He is the namesake of several constructions in category theory, including the Kleisli category and Kleisli triples. He is also the namesake of the Kleisli Quer ...
(Fribourg)
*1978–79
André Delessert (University of Lausanne)
*1980–81
Pierre Gabriel
Pierre Gabriel (1 August 1933 – 24 November 2015), also known as Peter Gabriel, was a French mathematician at the University of Strasbourg (1962–1970), University of Bonn (1970–1974) and University of Zürich (1974–1998) who worked on cat ...
(Peter Gabriel)
*1982–83
Alain Robert
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(Neuchâtel)
*1984–85 Henri Carnal (Bern)
*1986–87 Shristi D. Chatterji (EPF Lausanne)
*1988–89
Norbert A’Campo (Basel)
*1990–91
Urs Stammbach (ETH Zurich)
*1992–93
Harald Holmann (Fribourg)
*1994–95
François Sigrist (Neuchâtel)
*1996–97
Hans Jarchow (University of Zurich)
*1998–99
Gerhard Wanner (Geneva)
*2000–01
Urs Würgler (Bern)
*2002–03
Rolf Jeltsch (ETH Zurich)
*2004–05
Peter Buser (EPF Lausanne)
*2006–07
Norbert Hungerbühler (Fribourg)
*2008–09
Viktor Schroeder (University of Zurich)
*2010–11
Bruno Colbois (Neuchâtel)
*2012–13
Christine Riedtmann (University of Bern)
*2014–15
Nicolas Monod
Nicolas Monod is a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and known for work on bounded cohomology, ergodic theory, geometry ( CAT(0) spaces), locally compact groups and amenability.
He was born in Montreux, Switzerla ...
(EPF Lausanne)
*2016–17
Anand Dessai (University of Fribourg)
*2018–19
Urs Lang (ETH Zurich)
*2020–21
Jeremy Blanc (Basel)
External links
Official website
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