This article provides a list of mathematical societies by country.
International mathematical societies
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African Mathematical Union
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Circolo Matematico di Palermo The Circolo Matematico di Palermo (Mathematical Circle of Palermo) is an Italian mathematical society, founded in Palermo by Sicilian geometer Giovanni B. Guccia in 1884.
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European Mathematical Society
The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The current ...
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Foundations of Computational Mathematics
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International Linear Algebra Society
The International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) is a professional mathematical society organized to promote research and education in linear algebra, matrix theory and matrix computation. It serves the international community through conferences, ...
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International Mathematical Union
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international non-governmental 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 ...
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International Association of Mathematical Physics
The International Association of Mathematical Physics (IAMP) was founded in 1976 to promote research in mathematical physics. It brings together research mathematicians and theoretical physicists, including students. The association's ordinary me ...
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International Society for Mathematical Sciences
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Mathematical Optimization Society
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Quaternion Society
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International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific soci ...
Mathematical honor societies
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Kappa Mu Epsilon
Kappa Mu Epsilon () is a mathematics honor society founded by Emily Kathryn Wyant in 1931 at Northeastern Oklahoma State Teachers College to focus on the needs of undergraduate mathematics students. There are now over 80,000 members in about 150 ...
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Mu Alpha Theta
Mu Alpha Theta () is the United States mathematics honor society for high school and two-year college students. In June 2015, it served over 108,000 student members in over 2,200 chapters in the United States and in 20 foreign countries. Its ma ...
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Pi Mu Epsilon
National mathematical societies
Arranged as follows: Society name in English
(Society name in home-language;
Abbreviation if used)
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American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meeting ...
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Australian Mathematical Society
The Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS) was founded in 1956 and is the national society of the mathematics profession in Australia. One of the Society's listed purposes is to promote the cause of mathematics in the community by representing ...
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Austrian Mathematical Society (Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft; ÖMG)
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Bangladesh Mathematical Society
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Brazilian Mathematical Society
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Canadian Mathematical Society
The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) (french: Société mathématique du Canada) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research, outreach, scholarship and education in Canada. It serves the ...
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Chinese Mathematical Society The Chinese Mathematical Society (CMS, ) is an academic organization for Chinese mathematicians, with the official websitwww.cms.org.cn It is a member of China Association of Science and Technology.
History
The Chinese Mathematical Society (CMS) ...
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Cyprus Mathematical Society
The Cyprus Mathematical Society (CMS) aims to promote the mathematical education and science. It was founded in 1983. The C.M.S. is a non-profit organization supported by the voluntary work of its members. The C.M.S. counts over 600 members. In ...
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Danish Mathematical Society The Danish Mathematical Society (Dansk Matematisk Forening) is a society of Danish mathematicians founded in 1873 at the University of Copenhagen, a year after the French Mathematical Society. According to the society website, it has "the purpose ...
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(Društvo Matematikov Fizikov in Astronomov Slovenije, DMFA)
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Gabon Mathematical Society
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German Mathematical Society
The German Mathematical Society (german: Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, DMV) is the main professional society of German mathematicians and represents German mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Math ...
(Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung; DMV)
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Hellenic Mathematical Society (Ελληνική Μαθηματική Εταιρεία; EME)
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Indian Mathematical Society
Indian Mathematical Society (IMS) is the oldest organization in India devoted to the promotion of study and research in mathematics. The Society was founded in April 1907 by V. Ramaswami Aiyar with its headquarters at Pune. The Society started ...
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Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
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Iranian Mathematical Society
The Iranian Mathematical Society (IMS) is the main mathematical society in Iran. It was officially registered in 1971 by Professor Mehdi Behzad, who was the first president of IMS. The current president of IMS is Professor Mohammad Sal Mosle ...
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Irish Mathematical Society
The Irish Mathematical Society ( ga, Cumann Matamaitice na hÉireann) or IMS is the main professional organisation for mathematicians in Ireland. The society aims to further mathematics and mathematical research in Ireland. Its membership is in ...
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Israel Mathematical Union
The Israel Mathematical Union (IMU) ( he, הַאִיגּוּד הַיִשְׂרְאֵלִי לְמָתֶמָטִיקָה) is an association of professional mathematicians in Israel. It is a member of the European Mathematical Society and the Int ...
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Italian Mathematical Union
The Italian Mathematical Union ( it, Unione Matematica Italiana) is a mathematical society based in Italy.
It was founded on December 7, 1922 by Luigi Bianchi, Vito Volterra, and most notably, Salvatore Pincherle, who became the Union's first P ...
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János Bolyai Mathematical Society
The János Bolyai Mathematical Society (Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat, BJMT) is the Hungarian mathematical society, named after János Bolyai, a 19th-century Hungarian mathematician, a co-discoverer of non-Euclidean geometry. It is the profes ...
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Kharkov Mathematical Society
The Kharkov Mathematical Society ( uk, Харківське математичне товариство, translit=Kharkivske matematychne tovarystvo, russian: Харьковское математическое общество) is an association ...
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Latvian Mathematical Society
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Luxembourg Mathematical Society
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Malta Mathematical Society
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Mathematical Association
The Mathematical Association is a professional society concerned with mathematics education in the UK.
History
It was founded in 1871 as the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching and renamed to the Mathematical Association in ...
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Mathematical Association of America
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure a ...
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Mathematical Society of Japan
The Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ, ja, 日本数学会) is a learned society for mathematics in Japan.
In 1877, the organization was established as the ''Tokyo Sugaku Kaisha'' and was the first academic society in Japan. It was re-organized ...
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Mathematical Society of the Philippines
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National Association of Mathematicians
The National Association of Mathematicians is a professional association for mathematicians in the US, especially African Americans and other minorities. It was founded in 1969. (US)
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Nepal Mathematical Society
The Nepal Mathematical Society (NMS) ( ne, नेपाल गणित समाज), was founded (formally) in January, 1979 (Nepali language, Nepali :बिक्रम सम्बत २०३५ Magh (Nepali calendar), माघ ५), by e ...
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New Zealand Mathematical Society
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Norwegian Mathematical Society
The Norwegian Mathematical Society ( no, Norsk matematisk forening, NMF) is a professional society for mathematicians. It was formed in 1918, with Carl Størmer elected as its first president.
It organizes mathematical contests and the annual Abe ...
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Norwegian Statistical Association The Norwegian Statistical Association (Norsk statistisk forening, NSF) has three local societies located respectively in Oslo, Bergen, and Trondheim. The NSF has its own magazine called Tilfeldig Gang (Random Walk). The Society is one of the four or ...
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Pakistan Mathematical Society
The Pakistan Mathematical Society ( ur, پاکستان ریاضیاتی معاشرہ, Acronym: PakMS), is a learned society for mathematical sciences, possibly the largest learned society of its own kind, and a research institute to promote math ...
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Polish Mathematical Society
The Polish Mathematical Society ( pl, Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne) is the main professional society of Polish mathematicians and represents Polish mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathematical Un ...
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Portuguese Mathematical Society
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Royal Spanish Mathematical Society (Real Sociedad Matemática Española)
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Royal Dutch Mathematical Society
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Royal Statistical Society
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good.
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French Mathematical Society (Société Mathématique de France; SMF)
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Society of Applied & Industrial Mathematicians
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South African Mathematical Society
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Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research
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Swiss Mathematical Society
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Turkish Mathematical Society
List of regional mathematical societies
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Calcutta Mathematical Society
The Calcutta Mathematical Society (CalMathSoc) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and education in India. The Society has its head office located at Kolkata, India.
History
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CalMathSoc (based in Kolkata, India)
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Edinburgh Mathematical Society
The Edinburgh Mathematical Society is a mathematical society for academics in Scotland.
History
The Society was founded in 1883 by a group of Edinburgh school teachers and academics, on the initiative of Alexander Yule Fraser FRSE and Andrew Je ...
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Kerala Mathematical Association
Kerala Mathematical Association is an organisation established in 1962 to serve the mathematical community comprising students, teachers and researchers inside Kerala and outside. It has a membership of around 1000 of which nearly half are life m ...
(based in
Kerala State
Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South Can ...
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...
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London Mathematical Society
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical ...
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Moscow Mathematical Society
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St. Petersburg Mathematical Society
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Trinity Mathematical Society (based in Trinity College, Cambridge)
See also
{{portal, Mathematics
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List of academic statistical associations
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External links
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of the International Mathematical Union
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international non-governmental 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 ...
Mathematical societies
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...