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 (IMU). It was founded in 1890 in

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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

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, Carl Runge, 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 Austrian Mathematical Society (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

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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 * 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: Carl Runge * 1915: Sebastian Finsterwalder * 1916: Ludwig Kiepert * 1917: Kurt Hensel * 1918: Otto Hölder * 1919: Hans von Mangoldt * 1920: Robert Fricke * 1921: Edmund Landau * 1922: Arthur Moritz Schoenflies * 1923: Erich Hecke * 1924: Otto Blumenthal * 1925: Heinrich Tietze * 1926: Hans Hahn * 1927: Friedrich Schilling, Danzig * 1928, 1936: Erhard Schmidt * 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 * 1935: Georg Hamel * 1937: Walther Lietzmann * 1938–1945: Wilhelm Süss * 1946: Kurt Reidemeister * 1948–1952: Erich Kamke * 1953, 1955: Georg Nöbeling * 1954: Hellmuth Kneser * 1956: Karl Heinrich Weise * 1957: Emanuel Sperner * 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: Willi Törnig * 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

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

Activities

Cantor Medal

Governance

See also

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