Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society
The Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society is a society of Saint Petersburg mathematicians. It was dissolved and subsequently revived twice, each time changing its name:
- Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society (1890-1905)
- Petrograd Physical and Mathematical Society (1921-1930)
- Leningrad Mathematical Society (1959-1990)
- Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society (1990-)
Former presidents
- V.G. Imshenetskii (1890-1892)
- Julian Sochocki (1892-1905)
- A.V. Vassiliev (1921-1923)
- Nikolai Maximovich Günther (1923-1930)
- Yuri Linnik (1959-1965)
- S.M. Lozinskii (1965-1985)
- D.K. Faddeev (1985-1989)
- Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1990-1998)
- Anatoly Vershik (1998-2008)
- Yuri Matiyasevich (2008-)
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
"Young mathematician" prize
The "Young Mathematician" prize[1] has been awarded since 1962. A (partial) list of the winners is the following one:
- Yuri Matiyasevich, 1970
- Eugene Dynkin, 1976
- Andrei Suslin, 1977
- Alexander Merkurjev, 1982
- Nicolai Reshetikhin, 1988
- Grigori Perelman, 1991
- Ivan Fesenko, 1992
- Stanislav Smirnov, 1997
See also
Notes
External links
- Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society homepage
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society" and "The Petrograd Physico-Mathematical Society". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.