St. Petersburg Mathematical Society
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The St. Petersburg Mathematical Society is a society of St. Petersburg mathematician
s. It was dissolved and subsequently revived twice, each time changing its name:
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
s. It was dissolved and subsequently revived twice, each time changing its name:
- St. Petersburg Mathematical Society (1890-1905)
- Petrograd Physical and Mathematical Society (1921-1930)
- Leningrad Mathematical Society (1959-1990)
- St. Petersburg Mathematical Society (1990-)
Former presidents
- V.G. Imshenetskii (1890-1892)
- Yulian SokhotskiYulian Vasilievich SokhotskiJulian Karol Sochocki was a Polish mathematician....
(1892-1905) - A.V. Vassiliev (1921-1923)
- N.M. Günter (1923-1930)
- Yuri LinnikYuri LinnikYuri Vladimirovich Linnik was a Soviet mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics.Linnik was born in Bila Tserkva, in present-day Ukraine. He went to St Petersburg University where his supervisor was Vladimir Tartakovski, and later worked at that...
(1959-1965) - S.M. Lozinskii (1965-1985)
- D.K. Faddeev (1985-1989)
- Olga LadyzhenskayaOlga Aleksandrovna LadyzhenskayaOlga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. She was known for her work on partial differential equations and fluid dynamics...
(1990-1998) - Anatoly VershikAnatoly VershikAnatoly Moiseevich Vershik is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is most famous for his joint work with Sergey V. Kerov on representations of infinite symmetric groups and applications to the longest increasing subsequences....
(1998-2008) - Yuri MatiyasevichYuri MatiyasevichYuri Vladimirovich Matiyasevich, is a Russian mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for his negative solution of Hilbert's tenth problem, presented in his doctoral thesis, at LOMI .- Biography :* In 1962-1963 studied at Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239...
(2008-)
Honorary members
- Aleksandr Danilovich AleksandrovAleksandr Danilovich AleksandrovAleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov , and Alexandrov ) , was a Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and mountaineer.- Scientific career :...
- Sergei Natanovich BernsteinSergei Natanovich BernsteinSergei Natanovich Bernstein was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory.-Partial differential equations:...
- Leonid Vitaliyevich KantorovichLeonid KantorovichLeonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources...
- Mark Grigoryevich KreinMark Grigoryevich KreinMark Grigorievich Krein was a Soviet Jewish mathematician, one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. He is known for works in operator theory , the problem of moments, classical analysis and representation theory.He was born in Kiev, leaving home at age 17 to go to...
- Olga Aleksandrovna LadyzhenskayaOlga Aleksandrovna LadyzhenskayaOlga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. She was known for her work on partial differential equations and fluid dynamics...
- Andrey Andreyevich MarkovAndrey MarkovAndrey Andreyevich Markov was a Russian mathematician. He is best known for his work on theory of stochastic processes...
- Solomon Grigor'evich Mikhlin
- Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shanin
- Vladimir Ivanovich SmirnovVladimir Ivanovich Smirnov (mathematician)Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov was a Russian mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics....
- Victor Abramovich ZalgallerVictor ZalgallerVictor Abramovich Zalgaller is a mathematician in the fields of geometry and optimization. He is best known for his results on convex polyhedra, linear and dynamic programming, isoperimetry, and differential geometry....
"Young mathematician" prize (partial list)
- Yuri MatiyasevichYuri MatiyasevichYuri Vladimirovich Matiyasevich, is a Russian mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for his negative solution of Hilbert's tenth problem, presented in his doctoral thesis, at LOMI .- Biography :* In 1962-1963 studied at Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239...
, 1970 - Eugene DynkinEugene DynkinEugene Borisovich Dynkin is a Soviet and American mathematician. He has made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes...
, 1976 - Andrei SuslinAndrei SuslinAndrei Suslin is a Russian mathematician who has made major contributions to the field of algebra, especially algebraic K-theory and its connections with algebraic geometry. He is currently a Trustee Chair and Professor of mathematics at Northwestern University.He was born on December 27, 1950,...
, 1977 - Alexander MerkurjevAlexander MerkurjevAlexander Merkurjev is a Russian-born American mathematician, who has made major contributions to the field of algebra. Currently Merkurjev is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.-Awards and distinctions:...
, 1982 - Nicolai ReshetikhinNicolai ReshetikhinNicolai Yuryevich Reshetikhin is a mathematical physicist, currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and a professor of mathematical physics at the University of Amsterdam. His research is in the fields of low-dimensional topology, representation theory, and...
, 1988 - Grigori PerelmanGrigori PerelmanGrigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology.In 1992, Perelman proved the soul conjecture. In 2002, he proved Thurston's geometrization conjecture...
, 1991 - Ivan FesenkoIvan FesenkoIvan Fesenko is a mathematician working in number theory and other areas of mathematics. In 1992 Fesenko won the Young Mathematician Prize of the Petersburg Mathematical Society for his work on class field theory.- Work :...
, 1992 - Stanislav SmirnovStanislav SmirnovStanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov is a Russian mathematician currently working at the University of Geneva, who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010. His research focuses on the fields of complex analysis, dynamical systems and probability theory.-Career:...
, 1997
External links
- St. Petersburg Mathematical Society homepage
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "St. Petersburg Mathematical Society" and "The Petrograd Physico-Mathematical Society". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.