St. Petersburg Mathematical Society

The St. Petersburg Mathematical Society is a society of St. Petersburg mathematicians. 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

• (1890-1892)
• Yulian Sokhotski (1892-1905)
• A.V. Vassiliev (1921-1923)
• (1923-1930)
• Yuri Linnik (1959-1965)
• S.M. Lozinskii (1965-1985)
• (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 (partial list)

• Yuri Matiyasevich, 1970
• Eugene Dynkin, 1976
• Andrei Suslin, 1977
• Nicolai Reshetikhin, 1988
• Grigori Perelman, 1991

See also

• List of Mathematical Societies

External links

• O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "" and ". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

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