Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik ("Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics"), often referred to by the acronym GAMM, is a German society for the promotion of science, founded in 1922 by the physicist

Ludwig Prandtl Ludwig Prandtl (4 February 1875 – 15 August 1953) was a German fluid dynamicist, physicist and aerospace scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of rigorous systematic mathematical analyses which he used for underlying the science of ...

and the mathematician

Richard von Mises Richard Edler von Mises (; 19 April 1883 – 14 July 1953) was an Austrian scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. He held the position of Gordo ...

. The society awards the

Richard von Mises prize The Richard von Mises Prize is awarded annually by the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM). Since its inception in 1989, the award is given to a young scientist ...

annually. In 1958 the GAMM and the ACM together worked out the "

ALGOL 58 ALGOL 58, originally named IAL, is one of the family of ALGOL computer programming languages. It was an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL 60. According to John Backus The Zurich ACM-GAMM Conference had two principal motives in p ...

Report" at a meeting in Zurich.

External links

Official site (German)
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