Moscow Mathematical Society
Encyclopedia
The Moscow Mathematical Society is a society of Moscow
mathematician
s aimed at the development of mathematics in Russia
.
The first meeting of the society was . Nikolai Brashman
was the first president of MMO. Victor Vassiliev
is the current president of MMO.
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
s aimed at the development of mathematics in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
.
The first meeting of the society was . Nikolai Brashman
Nikolai Brashman
Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman was a Russian mathematician of Austrian origin. He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev....
was the first president of MMO. Victor Vassiliev
Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev
Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev or Vasilyev , is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is best known for his discovery of the Vassiliev invariants in knot theory , which subsume many previously discovered polynomial knot invariants such as the Jones polynomial...
is the current president of MMO.
Former presidents
- Nikolai BrashmanNikolai BrashmanNikolai Dmitrievich Brashman was a Russian mathematician of Austrian origin. He was a student of Joseph Johann Littrow, and the advisor of Pafnuty Chebyshev....
(1864-1866) - A. Yu. Davidov (1866-1886)
- Vasily Jakovlevich ZingerVasily Jakovlevich ZingerVasili Yakovlevich Zinger was a prominent Russian mathematician, botanist and philosopher.-Biography:Zinger was born in Moscow . His father was a teacher of mathematics. Zinger graduated in 1859 from Moscow University, where he majored in mathematics. He earned his doctoral degree in 1867...
(1886-1891) - Nikolai BugaevNikolai BugaevNikolai Vasilievich Bugaev was a prominent Russian mathematician.-Biography:Bugaev was born in Georgia, Russian Empire into a somewhat unstable family , and at the age of ten young Nikolai was sent to Moscow to find his own means of obtaining an education...
(1891-1903) - P. A. Nekrasov (1903-1905)
- Nikolai Zhukovsky (1905-1921)
- Boleslav MlodzeevskiiBoleslav MlodzeevskiiBoleslav Kornelievich Mlodzeevskii, also Mlodzievskii was a Russian mathematician, a former president of the Moscow Mathematical Society. He was working in differential and algebraic geometry.- Biography :...
(1921-1923) - Dmitri EgorovDmitri Egorov- External links :...
(1923-1930) - Ernst Kolman (1930-1932)
- Pavel Alexandrov (1932-1964)
- Andrey KolmogorovAndrey KolmogorovAndrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov was a Soviet mathematician, preeminent in the 20th century, who advanced various scientific fields, among them probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics and computational complexity.-Early life:Kolmogorov was born at Tambov...
(1964–1966, 1973–1985) - Israel GelfandIsrael GelfandIsrael Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand was a Soviet mathematician who made major contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and functional analysis...
(1966–1970) - Igor ShafarevichIgor ShafarevichIgor Rostislavovich Shafarevich is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, founder of a school of algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry in the USSR, and a political writer. He was also an important dissident figure under the Soviet regime, a public supporter of Andrei Sakharov's Human Rights...
(1970–1973) - Sergei Novikov (1985-1996)
- Vladimir ArnoldVladimir ArnoldVladimir Igorevich Arnold was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable Hamiltonian systems, he made important contributions in several areas including dynamical systems theory, catastrophe theory,...
(1996-2010)