Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society
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Logo of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical society in 2016
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| Formation | 1890 |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
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Official language
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Russian |
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President
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Yuri Matiyasevich |
| Affiliations | European Mathematical Society |
| Website | www |
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Formerly called
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The Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society (Russian: Санкт-Петербургское математическое общество) is a mathematical society run by Saint Petersburg mathematicians.
The St. Petersburg Mathematical Society was founded in 1890 and was the third founded mathematical society in Russia after the Moscow (1867) and the Khar'kov (1879) ones. Its first president was Vasily Grigorevich Imshenetskii, who also had founded earlier the Khar'kov Mathematical Society.
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. In 1930, the last dissolution of the society was due to political reasons. 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.
The "Young Mathematician" prize has been awarded since 1962: the first winner was Vladimir Maz'ya, for his results on Sobolev spaces. A (partial) list of the winners is the following one:
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