Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society

The Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society (Russian: Санкт-Петербургское математическое общество) is a mathematical society run by Saint Petersburg mathematicians.

Historical notes

The St. Petersburg Mathematical Society was founded in 1890 and was the third founded mathematical society in Russia after the Moscow (1867) and the Khar'kov (1879) ones.^[1][2] Its first president was Vasily Grigorevich Imshenetskii,^[1] who also had founded earlier the Karkhov Mathematical Society.^[3]

The Society was dissolved and subsequently revived twice, each time changing its name: sometime in between 1905 and 1917, the society ceased to function and by 1917 it had completely dissolved, perhaps due to the social agitations that destroyed many existing Russian scientific institutions.^[2] In 1930, the last dissolution of the society was due to political reasons.^[4] Before the beginning of World War II in 1941, Leonid Kantorovich proposed to revive the society, and a similar failed attempt was tried by Vladimir Smirnov in 1953: only in 1959 Yuri Linnik did succeed in reestablishing the society.^[5]

Timeline of former presidents

Honorary members

• Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov
• Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
• Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich
• Mark Grigoryevich Krein
• Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
• Andrey Andreyevich Markov
• Solomon Grigor'evich Mikhlin
• Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shanin
• Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov
• Victor Abramovich Zalgaller
• Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shanin
• Anatolii Moiseevich Vershik
• Ildar Abdullovich Ibragimov (rus)
• Vasilii Mikhailovich Babich

Activities

"Young mathematician" prize

The "Young Mathematician" prize^[10] has been awarded since 1962: the first winner was Vladimir Maz'ya,^[11] for his results on Sobolev spaces.^[12] A (partial) list of the winners is the following one:

• Vladimir Maz'ya, 1962
• Yuri Matiyasevich, 1970
• Andrei Suslin, 1977
• Alexander Merkurjev, 1982
• Nicolai Reshetikhin, 1988
• Grigori Perelman, 1991
• Ivan Fesenko, 1992
• Stanislav Smirnov, 1997

See also

• List of Mathematical Societies

Notes

References

• Agranovich, M. S.; Burago, Yu. D.; Vainberg, B. R.; Vishik, M. I.; Gindikin, S. G.; Kondrat'ev, V. A.; Maslov, V. P.; Poborchii, S. V.; Reshetnyak, Yu. (2008), "Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya (on his 70th birthday)", Russian Mathematical Surveys, 63 (1): 189–196, doi:10.1070/RM2008v063n01ABEH004511, MR 2406192, Zbl 1221.01098, (subscription required (help)) . A biographical paper written on the occasion of Maz'ya 70th birthday (a freely accessible English translation is available here), translated from the (freely accessible) Russian original "Владимир Гилелевич Мазья (к 70-летию со дня рождения)", Russian Mathematical Surveys, 63 (1 (379)): 183–189, 2008, MR 2406192, Zbl 1221.01098 .
• Anolik, M. V.; Burago, Yu. D.; Dem'yanovich, Yu. K.; Kislyakov, S. V.; Khavin, V. P.; Leonov, G. A.; Morozov, N. F.; Poborchii, S. V.; Ural'tseva, N. N.; Shirokov, N. A. (2008), "Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya (On the Occasion of His 70th Anniversary)", Vestnik St. Petersburg University: Mathematics, 41 (4): 287–289, doi:10.3103/S1063454108040018, MR 2485391, Zbl 1172.01313, (subscription required (help)) . Another biographical paper written on the occasion of Maz'ya 70th birthday (a freely accessible version is available here).
• The Editorial Board (1986), "Заседания Ленинградского математического общества" [Meetings of the Leningrad Mathematical Society], Uspekhi Matematicheskikh Nauk (in Russian), 41 (1 (247)): 215–223 .
• Eidus, D.; Khvoles, A.; Kresin, G.; Merzbach, E.; Prössdorf, S.; Shaposhnikova, T.; Sobolevskii, P.; Solomiak, M. (1997), "Mathemathical Work of Vladimir Maz'ya (on the occasion of his 60th birthday)", Functional Differential Equations, 4 (1–2): 3–11, MR 1491785, Zbl 0896.35002 .
• Petrograd Physical and Mathematical Society (1927), Отчет о деятельности Ленинградского физико-математического общества в 1922-1927 гг. [Activity report for the Leningrad Physical and Mathematical Society in the years 1922-1927] (PDF) (in Russian), Leningrad: Petrograd Physical and Mathematical Society, pp. XII 
• Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Kharkov University (2010), Имшенецкий Василий Григорьевич [Vasily Grigorevich Imshenetskii] (in Ukrainian), National University of Kharkiv 
• Lorentz, G.G. (2002), "Mathematics and politics in the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953", Journal of Approximation Theory, 116 (2): 169–223, doi:10.1006/jath.2002.3670, MR 1911079, Zbl 1006.01009 . See also the final version available from the "George Lorentz" section of the Approximation Theory web page at the Mathematics Department of the Ohio State University (retrieved on 25 October 2009).
• Mitrea, Dorina; Mitrea, Marius (2008), "On the Scientific Work of V. G. Maz'ya: a personalized account" (PDF), in Mitrea, Dorina; Mitrea, Marius, Perspectives in Partial Differential Equations, Harmonic Analysis and Applications. A volume in Honor of Vladimir G Maz'ya's 70th Birthday., Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, 79, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, pp. vii–xvii, ISBN 978-0-8218-4424-3, MR 1500279, Zbl 1153.01330 .
• Ostrovskii, I. V. (December 1999), "Kharkov Mathematical Society" (PDF), European Mathematical Society Newsletter, 34: 26–27 .
• Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society (8 September 2012), From the history of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society, retrieved 15 October 2016 .
• Vershik, A. M. (December 1993), "The St. Petersburg Mathematical Society" (PDF), European Mathematical Society Newsletter, 10: 26–27 

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "The Petrograd Physico-Mathematical Society", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "The St. Petersburg Mathematical Society", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .