American Mathematical Society
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The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards to mathematicians.
The AMS is an advocate of the typesetting program TeX, insisting that contributions be written in it and producing its own packages AMS-TeX and AMS-LaTeX.
AMS is one of the three parts of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM).
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[edit] Early history
It was founded in 1888 as the New York Mathematical Society, the brainchild of Thomas Fiske who was impressed by the London Mathematical Society on a visit to England. J.H. Van Amringe was first president and Fiske became secretary. The society soon decided to publish a journal, the Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, with Fiske as editor-in-chief. The journal, as intended, was influential in increasing membership.
In July, 1894, it became a national society and was reorganized under its present name.
[edit] Presidents
[edit] 1888 – 1900
- J. H. Van Amringe (New York Mathematical Society) (1888-1890)
- Emory McClintock (New York Mathematical Society) (1890-94)
- G. W. Hill (1894-96)
- Simon Newcomb (1897-98)
- R. S. Woodward (1898-1900)
[edit] 1901 – 1950
- Eliakim H. Moore (1901-02)
- T. S. Fiske (1902-04)
- W. F. Osgood (1904-05)
- H. S. White (1907-08)
- Maxime Bôcher (1908-10)
- H. B. Fine (1911-12)
- E. B. Van Vleck (1913-14)
- E. W. Brown (1914-16)
- L. E. Dickson (1917-18)
- Frank Morley (1919-20)
- G. A. Bliss (1921-22)
- Oswald Veblen (1923-24)
- G. D. Birkhoff (1925-26)
- Virgil Snyder (1927-28)
- E. R. Hedrick (1929-30)
- L. P. Eisenhart (1931-32)
- A. B. Coble (1933-34)
- Solomon Lefschetz (1935-36)
- Robert Lee Moore (1937-38)
- G. C. Evans (1939-40)
- Marston Morse (1941-42)
- M. H. Stone (1943-44)
- T. H. Hildebrandt (1945-46)
- Einar Hille (1947-48)
- J. L. Walsh (1949-50)
[edit] 1951 – 2000
- John von Neumann (1951-52)
- G. T. Whyburn (1953-54)
- R. L. Wilder (1955-56)
- Richard Brauer (1957-58)
- E. J. McShane (1959-60)
- Deane Montgomery (1961-62)
- J. L. Doob (1963-64)
- Abraham Albert (1965-66)
- C. B. Morrey, Jr (1967-68)
- Oscar Zariski (1969-70)
- Nathan Jacobson (1971-72)
- Saunders Mac Lane (1973-74)
- Lipman Bers (1975-76)
- R. H. Bing (1977-78)
- Peter Lax (1979-80)
- Andrew Gleason (1981-82)
- Julia Robinson (1983-84)
- Irving Kaplansky (1985-86)
- George D. Mostow (1987-88)
- William Browder (1989-90)
- Michael Artin (1991-92)
- Ronald Graham (1993-94)
- Cathleen Morawetz (1995-96)
- Arthur Jaffe (1997-98)
- Felix Browder (1999-2000)
[edit] 2001 –
- Hyman Bass (2001-02)
- David Eisenbud (2003-04)
- James Arthur (2005-06)
- James Glimm (2007-08)
[edit] Publications
The AMS publishes Mathematical Reviews, a database of reviews of mathematical publications.
The AMS also publishes multiple journals:
- General
- Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society - published quarterly,
- Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical Society - online only,
- Journal of the American Mathematical Society - published quarterly,
- Notices of the American Mathematical Society - published monthly, one of the most widely read mathematical periodicals,
- Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society - published monthly,
- Transactions of the American Mathematical Society - published monthly,
- Subject-specific
- Mathematics of Computation - published quarterly,
- Conformal Geometry and Dynamics - online only,
- Representation Theory - online only.
