Moscow Mathematical Society

The Moscow Mathematical Society is a society of Moscow mathematicians aimed at the development of mathematics in Russia. The first meeting of the society was September 27 [O.S. September 15] 1864. Nikolai Brashman became the first president of MMO.

[edit] Former presidents

• Nikolai Brashman (1864-1866)
• A.Yu. Davidov (1866-1886)
• Vasily Jakovlevich Zinger (1886-1891)
• Nikolai Bugaev (1891-1903)
• P.A. Nekrasov (1903-1905)
• Nikolai Zhukovsky (1905-1921)
• Boleslav Mlodzeevskii (1921-1923)
• Dmitri Egorov (1923-1930)
• Ernst Kolman (1930-1932)
• Pavel Alexandrov (1932-1964)
• Andrey Kolmogorov (1964–1966, 1973–1985)
• Israel Gelfand (1966–1970)
• Igor Shafarevich (1970–1973)
• Sergei Novikov (1985-1996)
• Vladimir Arnold (1996-)

[edit] See also

• List of Mathematical Societies

[edit] References

• Smilka Zdravkovska, Peter Duren (Herausgeber): The golden ages of Moscow Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 2007.

[edit] External links

• Moscow Mathematical Society homepage
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Moscow Mathematical Society", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Moscow.html .