The German Mathematical Society (german: Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, DMV) is the main professional society of

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and represents German mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the

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(IMU). It was founded in 1890 in

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with the set theorist Georg Cantor as first president. Founding members included Georg Cantor,

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

, Walther von Dyck, David Hilbert, Hermann Minkowski,

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 (German pronunciation: ), in the field of what is today know ...

Rudolf Sturm Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm (6 January 1841 – 12 April 1919) was a German mathematician. His Ph.D. advisor was Heinrich Eduard Schroeter, and Otto Toeplitz was one of his Ph.D. students. His best ever proposal type claim is commonly known as "S ...

, Hermann Schubert, and Heinrich Weber. The current president of the DMV is Ilka Agricola (2021–2022).

Activities

In honour of its founding president, Georg Cantor, the society awards the

Cantor Medal The Cantor medal of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung is named in honor of Georg Cantor, the first president of the society. It is awarded at most every second year during the yearly meetings of the society. The prize winners are mathematician ...

. 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, PTM, or 2016 with the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM). Twice annually, it organises the ''Gauß Lecture'', a public audience lecture by well-known mathematicians.

Cantor Medal

Governance

Since 1995, the DMV is led by a president, before that by a chairperson.''list of presidents of the DMV.''
/ref> * 1890–1893: Georg Cantor * 1894: Paul Gordan * 1895, 1904: Heinrich Weber * 1896, 1907:

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

* 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: David Hilbert * 1901, 1912: Walther von Dyck * 1902:

Wilhelm Franz Meyer Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Meyer (1856–1934) was a German mathematician and one of the main editors of the '' Encyclopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften''. Life and work Meyer studied in the universities of Leipzig and Munich. In 1878, he ...

* 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, h ...

* 1906:

Alfred Pringsheim Alfred Pringsheim (2 September 1850 – 25 June 1941) was a German mathematician and patron of the arts. He was born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia (now Oława, Poland) and died in Zürich, Switzerland. Family and academic career Pringsheim came ...

* 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 critic, and writer. Career Martin Krause was born in L ...

, Dresden * 1910: Friedrich Engel * 1911:

Friedrich Schur Friedrich Heinrich Schur (27 January 1856, Maciejewo, Krotoschin, Province of Posen – 18 March 1932, Breslau) was a German mathematician who studied geometry. Life and work Schur's family was originally Jewish, but converted to Protestan ...

* 1913:

Karl Rohn Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Rohn (January 25, 1855 in Schwanheim – August 4, 1920 in Leipzig) was a German mathematician, who studied geometry. Life and work Rohn studied in Darmstadt, Leipzig and Munich, initially engineering but then math ...

* 1914:

* 1915:

Sebastian Finsterwalder Sebastian Finsterwalder (4 October 1862 – 4 December 1951) was a German mathematician and glaciologist. Acknowledged as the "father of glacier photogrammetry"; he pioneered the use of repeat photography as a temporal surveying instrument in mea ...

* 1916: Ludwig Kiepert * 1917: Kurt Hensel * 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 Chri ...

* 1919: Hans von Mangoldt * 1920:

Robert Fricke Karl Emanuel Robert Fricke (24 September 1861 – 18 July 1930) was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis, especially on elliptic, modular and automorphic functions. He was one of the main collaborators of Felix Kle ...

* 1921: Edmund Landau * 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. Schoenflie ...

* 1923: Erich Hecke * 1924: Otto Blumenthal * 1925: Heinrich Tietze * 1926: Hans Hahn * 1927:

Friedrich Schilling Friedrich Georg Schilling (9 April 1868, Hildesheim – 25 May 1950, Gladbeck) was a German mathematician. Biography From 1887 Schilling studied mathematics at the University of Freiburg and the University of Göttingen, where he received his d ...

, Danzig * 1928, 1936: Erhard Schmidt * 1929:

Adolf Kneser Adolf Kneser (19 March 1862 – 24 January 1930) was a German mathematician. He was born in Grüssow, Mecklenburg, Germany and died in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). He is the father of the mathematician Hellmuth Kneser and the gra ...

* 1930: Rudolf Rothe, Berlin * 1931:

Ernst Sigismund Fischer Ernst Sigismund Fischer (12 July 1875 – 14 November 1954) was a mathematician born in Vienna, Austria. He worked alongside both Mertens and Minkowski at the Universities of Vienna and Zurich, respectively. He later became professor at the U ...

* 1932: Hermann Weyl * 1933:

Richard Baldus Richard Baldus (11 May 1885, in Salonika – 28 January 1945, in Munich) was a German mathematician, specializing in geometry. Richard Baldus was the son of a station chief of the Anatolian Railway. After his graduation (''Abitur'') in 1904 at ...

* 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 differential ...

* 1935: Georg Hamel * 1937: Walther Lietzmann * 1938–1945:

Wilhelm Süss Wilhelm Süss (7 March 1895 – 21 May 1958) was a German mathematician. He was founder and first director of the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics. Biography He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and died in Freiburg im Breisgau, G ...

* 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 G� ...

* 1948–1952:

Erich Kamke Erich Kamke (18 August 1890 – 28 September 1961) was a German mathematician, who specialized in the theory of differential equations. Also, his book on set theory became a standard introduction to the field. Biography Kamke was born in Ma ...

* 1953, 1955: Georg Nöbeling * 1954:

Hellmuth Kneser Hellmuth Kneser (16 April 1898 – 23 August 1973) was a Baltic German mathematician, who made notable contributions to group theory and topology. His most famous result may be his theorem on the existence of a prime decomposition for 3-manifo ...

* 1956: Karl Heinrich Weise * 1957: Emanuel Sperner * 1958: Gottfried Köthe * 1959: Willi Rinow * 1960: Wilhelm Maak * 1961: Ott-Heinrich Keller * 1962:

Friedrich Hirzebruch Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as ...

* 1963:

Wolfgang Haack Wolfgang Siegfried Haack (24 April 1902 – 28 November 1994) was a German mathematician and aerodynamicist. He in 1941 and William Sears in 1947 independently discovered the Sears–Haack body. Life Wolfgang Haack studied mechanical en ...

* 1964–1965: Heinrich Behnke * 1966: Karl Stein * 1967: Wolfgang Franz * 1968–1977: Martin Barner * 1977:

Heinz Bauer Heinz Bauer (31 January 1928 – 15 August 2002) was a German mathematician. Bauer studied at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received his PhD there in 1953 under the supervision of Otto Haupt and finished his habilitation in 1956, ...

* 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, ...

* 1986–1987:

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* 1988–1989: Willi Törnig * 1990:

* 1991–1992:

Winfried Scharlau Winfried Scharlau (12 August 1940, in Berlin – 26 November 2020) was a German mathematician. Biography Scharlau received his doctorate in 1967 from the University of Bonn. His doctoral thesis ''Quadratische Formen und Galois-Cohomologie'' (Qua ...

* 1993–1994:

Martin Grötschel Martin Grötschel (born 10 September 1948) is a German mathematician known for his research on combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, and operations research. From 1991 to 2012 he was Vice President of the Zuse Institute Berlin ...

* 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 Wolfgang Lück (born 19 February 1957 in Herford) is a German mathematician who is an internationally recognized expert in algebraic topology. Life and work After receiving his ''Abitur'' from the Ravensberger Gymnasium in Herford in 1975, ...

* 2011–2012: Christian Bär * 2013–2014: Jürg Kramer * 2015–2016: Volker Bach * 2017–2018: Michael Röckner * 2019–2020:

Friedrich Götze Friedrich Götze (born 6 August 1951 in Hameln) is a German mathematician, specializing in probability theory, mathematical statistics, and number theory. Education and career Götze studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttin ...

* 2021–2022: Ilka Agricola

References

{{authority control 1890 establishments in Germany Mathematical societies Scientific societies based in Germany

Activities

Cantor Medal

Governance

See also

References