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Swiss Mathematical Society
The Swiss Mathematical Society, SMS (, SMG; ), founded in Basel on 4 September 1910, is the national mathematical society of Switzerland. It is a member of the European Mathematical Society. History The SMS was established on 4 September 1910 in Basel as a specialised section of the Swiss Natural Research Society (SNG). Initiated by Rudolf Fueter, Henri Fehr and Marcel Grossmann, a circular signed by nineteen leading mathematicians drew eighty-two founding members, and the constitutive meeting was held that afternoon in the . From its earliest years the SMG organised annual spring and autumn sectional meetings—initially within the SNG framework—at which members presented research and exchange of ideas. Membership fees began at Swiss franc, CHF 2 per annum (later rising in stages and, from 2007, incorporating a reduced student rate) and the Society's governing statutes provided for a rotating presidency via an executive of three elected officers. In 1928 the SMG resolved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). Its members are national mathematics organizations from more than 80 countries. The objectives of the International Mathematical Union are: promoting international cooperation in mathematics, supporting and assisting the International Congress of Mathematicians and other international scientific meetings/conferences, acknowledging outstanding research contributions to mathematics through the awarding of scientific prizes, and encouraging and supporting other international mathematical activities, considered likely to contribute to the development of mathematical science in any of its aspects, whether pure, applied, or educational. History The IMU was established in 1920, but dissolved in September 1932 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Scherrer
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Rolin Wavre
Rolin-Louis Wavre (25 March 1896 in Neuchâtel – 9 December 1949 in Geneva) was a Swiss mathematician. Wavre studied at the Sorbonne and received his Ph.D. in 1921 from the University of Geneva, where he became a professor extraordinarius in 1922, and a professor ordinarius in 1934 (as successor to Charles Cailler). Wavre did research on, among other subjects, logic and the philosophy of mathematics, in which he was an adherent of Brouwer's intuitionism. Independently of, and almost simultaneously with, Leon Lichtenstein, he dealt with equilibrium figures of a heterogeneous fluid mass, with a view to applications to planetary systems in astrophysics. In 1932, in Zürich, he was a plenary speaker at the ICM with talk ''L'aspect analytique du problème des figures planétaires''. He was an invited speaker at the ICM in 1920 in Strasbourg, in 1928 in Bologna, and in 1936 in Oslo. For the two years 1936 and 1937, he was the president of the Swiss Mathematical Society. As an adol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustave Juvet
Gustave Juvet (born 25 September 1896, La Côte-aux-Fées, Neuchâtel – 2 April 1936, Valais) was a Swiss mathematician. He made contributions to relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology. He authored the first comprehensive French treatise on tensor calculus in 1922, and his work on Clifford algebras and spinors between 1930 and 1935 anticipated unified geometric approaches to physics that would later become influential in theoretical physics. Biography Juvet received his ''licence'' in mathematical sciences from the University of Neuchâtel in 1917 and then the same degree from the Sorbonne in 1919. He taught astronomy and geodesy from 1920 to 1928 at the University of Neuchâtel. In 1928 he became a professor at the University of Lausanne, where he retained his academic position until his unexpected death from a heart attack in 1936. In 1926 he received his doctorate from the ''Faculté des sciences de Paris''. He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1928 in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Dumas
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Severin Bays
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Ferdinand Gonseth
Ferdinand Gonseth (1890–1975) was a Swiss mathematician and philosopher. He was born on 22 September 1890 at Sonvilier, the son of Ferdinand Gonseth, a clockmaker, and his wife Marie Bourquin. He studied at La Chaux-de-Fonds, and read physics and mathematics at ETH Zurich, from 1910 to 1914. In 1929 Gonseth succeeded Jérôme Franel as Professor of Higher Mathematics at ETH. In 1947 he founded '' Dialectica'', with Paul Bernays and Gaston Bachelard. In the same year he took the newly created chair of philosophy of science at ETH. Gonseth died on 17 December 1975 at Lausanne Lausanne ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, city of the Swiss French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway bet .... He was noted for his "open philosophy", according to which science and mathematics lacked absolute foundations. See . Notes Further reading * {{DEFAU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Speiser
Andreas Speiser (June 10, 1885 – October 12, 1970) was a Swiss mathematician and philosopher of science. Life and work Speiser studied in Göttingen, starting in 1904, notably with David Hilbert, Felix Klein, Hermann Minkowski. In 1917 he became full-time professor at the University of Zurich but later relocated in Basel. During 1924/25 he was president of the Swiss Mathematical Association. Speiser worked on number theory, group theory, and the theory of Riemann surfaces. He organized the translation of Leonard Dickson's seminal 1923 book ''Algebras and Their Arithmetics'' (''Algebren und ihre Zahlentheorie'', 1927), which was heavily influenced by the work on the theory of algebras done by the schools of Emmy Noether and Helmut Hasse. Speiser also added an appendix on ideal theory to Dickson's book. Speiser's book ''Theorie der Gruppen endlicher Ordnung'' is a classic, richly illustrated work on group theory. In this book, there are group theoretical applications in Galois th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustave Dumas
250px Gustave Dumas (5 March 1872, L'Etivaz, Vaud, Switzerland – 11 July 1955) was a Swiss mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. Dumas received a baccalaureate degree from the University of Lausanne, then another baccalaureate degree from the Sorbonne, and in 1904 a doctoral degree from the Sorbonne with dissertation ''Sur les fonctions à caractère algébrique dans le voisinage d'un point donné''. In 1906 he obtained his habilitation qualification from Zürich's Federal Polytechnic School with habilitation dissertation ''Sur quelques cas d'irréductibilité des polynômes à coefficients rationnels''. From 1906 to 1913 Dumas taught higher mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School. At the University of Lausanne's Engineering School, he became in 1913 a professor extraordinarius and in 1916 a professor ordinarius, retiring in 1942. At Lausanne he had an important influence on his student Georges de Rham, who became Dumas's assistant before graduating in 1925. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Crelier
Louis Jacques Crelier (3 November 1873, Bure, Switzerland – 28 November 1935) was a Swiss mathematician. In 1886 he enrolled at l'Ecole normale in Porrentruy and then studied at the University of Berne, where he received his doctorate in 1895. He began his teaching career at the secondary school in Saint-Imier and then taught at the technical school (founded in 1873) in Biel/Bienne. He became in 1912 professor extraordinarius and in 1918 professor ordinarius at the University of Berne. Crelier served a two-year term from 1920 to 1921 as president of the Swiss Mathematical Society The Swiss Mathematical Society, SMS (, SMG; ), founded in Basel on 4 September 1910, is the national mathematical society of Switzerland. It is a member of the European Mathematical Society. History The SMS was established on 4 September 1910 .... He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1924 at Toronto and in 1928 at Bologna. Selected publications * * * * References External links * (40 pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Plancherel
Michel Plancherel (; 16 January 1885 – 4 March 1967) was a Swiss people, Swiss mathematician. Biography He was born in Bussy, Fribourg, Bussy (Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland) and obtained his Diplom in mathematics from the University of Fribourg and then his doctoral degree in 1907 with a thesis written under the supervision of Mathias Lerch. Plancherel was a professor in Fribourg (1911), and from 1920 at ETH Zurich. He worked in the areas of mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and algebra, and is known for the Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis. He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM in 1924 at TorontoPlancherel, Michel (1924" Sur les séries de fonctions orthogonales." In ''Proceedings of the International Mathematical Congress'', Toronto, vol. 1, pp. 619–622. and in 1928 at Bologna. He was married to Cécile Tercier, had nine children, and presided at the ''Mission Catholique Française'' in Zürich. References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
