Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society

Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society
Санкт-Петербургское математическое общество
	Logo of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical society
	Meeting of the society in the St. Petersburg House of Scientists, 22 December 2005
Formation	1890; 134 years ago
Location	Fontanka 27, St. Petersburg, 191023, Russia;
Fields	Mathematics
Official language	ru
President	Yuri Matiyasevich
Affiliations	European Mathematical Society
Website	www.mathsoc.spb.ru
Formerly called	Leningrad Mathematical Society (Russian: Ленинградское математическое общество) (1959–1990); Leningrad Physical and Mathematical Society (Russian: Ленинградское физико-математическое общество) (1924–1930); Petrograd Physical and Mathematical Society (Russian: Петроградское физико-математическое общество) (1921–1924); Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society (Russian: Санкт-Петербургское математическое общество) (1890–1905);

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 those of Moscow (1867) and Khar'kov (1879).^[1]^[2] Its founder and first president was Vasily Imshenetskii,^[1] who also had founded earlier the Khar'kov 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] It was re-established by the initiative of Alexander Vasilyev in 1921 as the Petrograd Physical and Mathematical Society (subsequently called the Leningrad Physical and Mathematical Society). In 1930, the self-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 made by Vladimir Smirnov in 1953: only in 1959 Yuri Linnik did succeed in reestablishing the society (then called the Leningrad Mathematical Society).^[5] It regained the original name the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society in 1991.

Timeline of former presidents

Years	President	Years	President	Years	President
1890–1892	Vasily Imshenetskii (rus)	1892–1905	Julian Sochocki	1921–1923	Alexander Vasilyev (rus)
1923–1930	Nikolai Günther	1959–1965	Yuri Linnik	1965–1985	Sergei Lozinskii (rus)
1985–1989	Dmitry Faddeev	1990–1998	Olga Ladyzhenskaya	1998–2008	Anatoly Vershik
2008–2013	Yuri Matiyasevich	2013-	Sergei Pilyugin

Honorary members

Activities

"Young mathematician" prize

The "Young Mathematician" prize^[6] has been awarded since 1962.

The list of the laureates:

V. G. Maz'ya, 1962
B. B. Venkov, 1963
V. S. Buslaev, 1964
A. V. Yakovlev, 1965
V. I. Derguzov, 1965
A. S. Blagoveshchenskii, 1966
V. P. Orevkov, 1967
V. V. Zhuk, 1968
Yu. V. Matiyasevich, 1970
S. A. Vinogradov, 1971
Ya. M. Eliashberg, 1973
Yu. A. Davydov, 1974
N. A. Shirokov, 1975
O. Ya. Viro, 1975
B. S. Tsirel'son, 1976
E. M. Dyn'kin, 1976
A. A. Suslin, 1977
M. D. Sterlin, 1977
S. V. Khrushchev, 1978
L. N. Gordeev, 1978
O. I. Reinov, 1980
N. L. Gordeev, 1980
N. E. Barabanov, 1980
E. D. Gluskin, 1981
A. R. Its, 1981
A. S. Merkur'ev, 1982
V. V. Peller, 1982
E. K. Sklyanin, 1983
D. Yu. Grigor'ev & A. L. Chistov, 1984
V. L. Kobel'skii, 1984
M. L. Lifshits, 1985
M. Yu. Lyubich, 1987
Yu. G. Safarov, 1987
V. A. Kaimanovich, 1988
N. Yu. Reshetikhin, 1988
A. A. Borichev, 1989
O. T. Izhboldin, 1989
A. I. Barvinok,1990
G. Ya. Perelman, 1991
D. Yu. Burago, 1992
I. B. Fesenko, 1992
F. L. Nazarov, 1993
S. M. Shimorin, 1994
S. V. Ivanov, 1995
T. N. Shilkin, 1997
S. K. Smirnov, 1997
O. L. Vinogradov, 1997
N. V. Tsilevich, 1998
A. B. Pushnitskii, 1998
G. B. Mikhalkin, 1999
O. V. Demchenko, 2000
S. G. Kryzhevich, 2001
A. V. Malyutin, 2001
A. G. Ershler, 2002
A. N. Zinoviev, 2003
A. D. Baranov, 2004
D. S. Chelkak, 2004
O. A. Tarakanov, 2005
N. V. Durov, 2006
K. V. Pervyshev, 2007
V. A. Petrov, 2007
A. Yu. Luzgarev, 2008
V. V. Vysotskii, 2008
A. K. Stavrova, 2009
S. B. Tikhomirov, 2009
P. N. Mnev, 2010
Yu. S. Belov, 2011
F. V. Petrov, 2011
A. S. Ananyevsky, 2012
R. S. Pusev, 2012
K. A. Izyurov, 2013
S. O. Ivanov, 2014
P. B. Zatitskiy & D. M. Stolyarov, 2015
A. A. Logunov, 2017
M. V. Dolgopolik, 2018
Yu. P. Petrova, 2019
M. V. Platonova, 2019
N. N. Senik, 2020
A. V. Alpeev, 2021
N. S. Ustinov, 2021
D. D. Cherkashin, 2022
G. A. Veprev, 2023
E. A. Zlobina, 2024

Notes

^ ^a ^b (Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society 2012).
^ ^a ^b (Vershik 1993, p. 21).
^ According to Ostrovskii (1999, p. 26)
^ See (Lorentz 2002, §4) for an account of the events leading to its closure.
^ (Lorentz 2002, p. 191).
^ The laureates of the annual Young Mathematician prize of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society [1]

References

Протоколы Санкт-Петербургского математического общества (1890 - 1899) [Protocols of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society (1890 - 1899)] (PDF) (in Russian), St. Petersburg: Типография В. Киршбаума, 1899, p. 131.

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: Leningrad Physical and Mathematical Society, 1927, pp. XII.

Санкт-Петербургское математическое общество, Отчеты о работе Общества [Activity reports of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society] (in Russian).

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).

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.

Ostrovskii, I. V. (December 1999), "Kharkov Mathematical Society" (PDF), European Mathematical Society Newsletter, 34: 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

[webhistory-1] (Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society 2012).

[Vershik1993p21-2] (Vershik 1993, p. 21).

[3] According to Ostrovskii (1999, p. 26)

[4] See (Lorentz 2002, §4) for an account of the events leading to its closure.

[5] (Lorentz 2002, p. 191).

[6] The laureates of the annual Young Mathematician prize of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society [1]

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