The German Mathematical Society (, DMV) is the main professional society of German mathematicians and represents German mathematics within the

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(EMS) and the

International Mathematical Union The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world. It is a member of the International Science Council (ISC) and supports the International ...

(IMU). It was founded in 1890 in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ...

with the set theorist

Georg Cantor Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( ; ; – 6 January 1918) was a mathematician who played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a foundations of mathematics, fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor establi ...

as first president. Founding members included

Felix Klein Felix Christian Klein (; ; 25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925) was a German mathematician and Mathematics education, mathematics educator, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and the associations betwe ...

Walther von Dyck Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (6 December 1856 – 5 November 1934), born Dyck () and later ennobled, was a German mathematician. He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense in . He laid the foundation ...

David Hilbert David Hilbert (; ; 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943) was a German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics and one of the most influential mathematicians of his time. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental idea ...

Hermann Minkowski Hermann Minkowski (22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, the University of Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, o ...

Carl Runge Carl David Tolmé Runge (; 30 August 1856 – 3 January 1927) was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. He was co-developer and co-eponym of the Runge–Kutta method (), in the field of what is today known as numerical analysi ...

, Rudolf Sturm, Hermann Schubert, and Heinrich Weber. The current president of the DMV is .

Activities

In honour of its founding president,

, the society awards the Cantor Medal. The DMV publishes two scientific journals, the ''Jahresbericht der DMV'' and ''Documenta Mathematica''. It also publishes a quarterly magazine for its membership the ''Mitteilungen der DMV''. The annual meeting of the DMV is called the ''Jahrestagung''; the DMV traditionally meets every four years together with the

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(ÖMG) and every four years together with the Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM). It sometimes organises its meetings jointly with other societies (e.g., 2014 with the

Polish Mathematical Society The Polish Mathematical Society () is the main professional society of Polish mathematicians and represents Polish mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU). History The society was ...

, PTM, or 2016 with the

Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik ("Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics"), often referred to by the acronym GAMM, is a German society for the promotion of science, founded in 1922 by the physicist Ludwig Prandtl and the ...

, GAMM). Twice annually, it organises the ''Gauß Lecture'', a public audience lecture by well-known mathematicians.

Cantor Medal

Governance

''See :Presidents of the German Mathematical Society'' Since 1995, the DMV is led by a president, before that by a chairperson.''list of presidents of the DMV.''
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* 1894:

Paul Gordan Paul Albert Gordan (27 April 1837 – 21 December 1912) was a German mathematician known for work in invariant theory and for the Clebsch–Gordan coefficients and Gordan's lemma. He was called "the king of invariant theory". His most famous ...

* 1895, 1904: Heinrich Weber * 1896, 1907:

Alexander von Brill Alexander Wilhelm von Brill (20 September 1842 – 18 June 1935) was a German mathematician. Biography Born in Darmstadt, Hesse, Brill was educated at the University of Giessen, where he earned his doctorate under supervision of Alfred Clebsch. ...

* 1897, 1903 und 1908:

* 1898:

Aurel Voss Aurel Voss (7 December 1845 – 19 April 1931) was a German mathematician, best known today for his contributions to geometry and mechanics. He served as president of the German Mathematical Society for the 1898 term. He was a professor at the Uni ...

* 1899:

Max Noether Max Noether (24 September 1844 – 13 December 1921) was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century". He was the ...

* 1900:

* 1901, 1912:

* 1902: Wilhelm Franz Meyer * 1905:

Paul Stäckel Paul Gustav Samuel Stäckel (20 August 1862, Berlin – 12 December 1919, Heidelberg) was a German mathematician, active in the areas of differential geometry, number theory, and non-Euclidean geometry. In the area of prime number theory, he used ...

* 1906:

Alfred Pringsheim Alfred Pringsheim (2 September 1850 – 25 June 1941) was a German mathematician and patron of the arts. He was the father-in-law of the author and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann. Family and academic career Pringsheim was born in Ohlau, Prov ...

* 1909:

Martin Krause Martin Krause (17 June 18532 August 1918) was a German concert pianist, piano teacher,James Methuen-Campbell (2001). Krause, Martin. ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press Music criticism, music critic, and writer. Career Krause was ...

, Dresden * 1910: Friedrich Engel * 1911: Friedrich Schur * 1913: Karl Rohn * 1914:

* 1915: Sebastian Finsterwalder * 1916: Ludwig Kiepert * 1917:

Kurt Hensel Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel (29 December 1861 – 1 June 1941) was a German mathematician born in Königsberg. Life and career Hensel was born in Königsberg, Province of Prussia (today Kaliningrad, Russia), the son of Julia (née von Adelson ...

* 1918:

Otto Hölder Ludwig Otto Hölder (December 22, 1859 – August 29, 1937) was a German mathematician born in Stuttgart. Early life and education Hölder was the youngest of three sons of professor Otto Hölder (1811–1890), and a grandson of professor Christ ...

* 1919: Hans von Mangoldt * 1920: Robert Fricke * 1921:

Edmund Landau Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (14 February 1877 – 19 February 1938) was a German mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis. Biography Edmund Landau was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. His father was Leopo ...

* 1922:

Arthur Moritz Schoenflies Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (; 17 April 1853 – 27 May 1928), sometimes written as Schönflies, was a German mathematician, known for his contributions to the application of group theory to crystallography, and for work in topology. Schoenflies ...

* 1923:

Erich Hecke Erich Hecke (; 20 September 1887 – 13 February 1947) was a German mathematician known for his work in number theory and the theory of modular forms. Biography Hecke was born in Buk, Province of Posen, German Empire (now Poznań, Poland). He ...

* 1924:

Otto Blumenthal Ludwig Otto Blumenthal (20 July 1876 – 12 November 1944) was a German mathematician and professor at RWTH Aachen University. Biography He was born in Frankfurt, Hesse-Nassau. A student of David Hilbert, Blumenthal was an editor of ''Mathemati ...

* 1925: Heinrich Tietze * 1926: Hans Hahn * 1927: Friedrich Schilling, Danzig * 1928, 1936:

Erhard Schmidt Erhard Schmidt (13 January 1876 – 6 December 1959) was a Baltic German mathematician whose work significantly influenced the direction of mathematics in the twentieth century. Schmidt was born in Tartu (), in the Governorate of Livonia (now ...

* 1929: Adolf Kneser * 1930: Rudolf Rothe, Berlin * 1931: Ernst Sigismund Fischer * 1932:

Hermann Weyl Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (; ; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, ...

* 1933: Richard Baldus * 1934:

Oskar Perron Oskar Perron (7 May 1880 – 22 February 1975) was a German mathematician. He was a professor at the University of Heidelberg from 1914 to 1922 and at the University of Munich from 1922 to 1951. He made numerous contributions to differentia ...

* 1935: Georg Hamel * 1937: Walther Lietzmann * 1938–1945: Wilhelm Süss * 1946:

Kurt Reidemeister Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister (13 October 1893 – 8 July 1971) was a mathematician born in Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany. Life He was a brother of Marie Neurath. Beginning in 1912, he studied in Freiburg, Munich, Marburg, and Göttin ...

* 1948–1952: Erich Kamke * 1953, 1955: Georg Nöbeling * 1954: Hellmuth Kneser * 1956: Karl Heinrich Weise * 1957:

Emanuel Sperner Emanuel Sperner (9 December 1905 – 31 January 1980) was a German mathematician, best known for two theorems. He was born in Waltdorf (near Neiße, Upper Silesia, now Nysa, Poland), and died in Sulzburg-Laufen, West Germany. He was a student a ...

* 1958: Gottfried Köthe * 1959: Willi Rinow * 1960: Wilhelm Maak * 1961: Ott-Heinrich Keller * 1962: Friedrich Hirzebruch * 1963: Wolfgang Haack * 1964–1965: Heinrich Behnke * 1966: Karl Stein * 1967: Wolfgang Franz * 1968–1977: Martin Barner * 1977: Heinz Bauer * 1978, 1979: Hermann Witting * 1980–1981: Gerd Fischer * 1982–1983: Helmut Werner, Bonn * 1984–1985:

Albrecht Dold Albrecht Dold (5 August 1928 – 26 September 2011) was a German mathematician specializing in algebraic topology who proved the Dold–Thom theorem, the Dold–Kan correspondence, and introduced Dold manifolds, Dold–Puppe stabilization, an ...

* 1986–1987: Wolfgang Schwarz * 1988–1989:

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* 1990: Friedrich Hirzebruch * 1991–1992: Winfried Scharlau * 1993–1994: Martin Grötschel * 1995–1997: Ina Kersten * 1998–1999: Karl-Heinz Hoffmann * 2000–2001: Gernot Stroth * 2002–2003: Peter Gritzmann * 2004–2005: Günther Wildenhain * 2006–2008: Günter M. Ziegler * 2009–2010: Wolfgang Lück * 2011–2012: Christian Bär * 2013–2014: Jürg Kramer * 2015–2016: Volker Bach * 2017–2018: Michael Röckner * 2019–2020: Friedrich Götze * 2021–2022:

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* 2023–2024: Joachim Escher * 2025: Jürg Kramer

References

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Activities

Cantor Medal

Governance

See also

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