St. Petersburg Mathematical Society

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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-)

Contents 1 Former presidents 2 Honorary members 3 "Young mathematician" prize (partial list) 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Former presidents

• V.G. Imshenetskii (1890-1892)
• Yulian Sokhotski (1892-1905)
• A.V. Vassiliev (1921-1923)
• N.M. Günter (1923-1930)
• Yuri Linnik (1959-1965)
• S.M. Lozinskii (1965-1985)
• D.K. Faddeev (1985-1989)
• Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1990-1998)
• Anatoly Vershik (1998-)

[edit] Honorary members

• Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov
• Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
• Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich
• Mark Grigoryevich Krein
• Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
• Andrey Andreyevich Markov
• S.G. Mikhlin
• N.A. Shanin
• Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov
• Victor Abramovich Zalgaller

[edit] "Young mathematician" prize (partial list)

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

[edit] See also

• List of Mathematical Societies

[edit] 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.