The Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ, ) is a

learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences. Membership may be open to al ...

for mathematics in

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

. In 1877, the organization was established as the ''Tokyo Sugaku Kaisha'' and was the first academic society in Japan. It was re-organized and re-established in its present form in 1946. The MSJ has roughly 5,000 members. They have the opportunity to participate in programs at MSJ meetings which take place in spring and autumn each year. They also have the opportunity to announce their own research at these meetings.

Prizes

Iyanaga Prize

The Iyanaga Prize was a mathematics award granted by the Mathematical Society of Japan. The prize was funded through an endowment given by

Shokichi Iyanaga was a Japanese people, Japanese mathematician. Early life Iyanaga was born in Tokyo, Japan on April 2, 1906. He studied at the University of Tokyo from 1926 to 1929. He studied under Teiji Takagi. As an undergraduate, he published two papers in ...

. Since 1988, it has been replaced by the

Spring Prize The Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ, ) 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 and re-established i ...

. * 1973 - Yasutaka Ihara * 1974 - Reiko Sakamoto * 1975 - Motoo Takahashi * 1976 - * 1977 - Takahiro Kawai * 1978 -

Takuro Shintani was a Japanese mathematician working in number theory who introduced Shintani zeta functions and Shintani's unit theorem In mathematics, Shintani's unit theorem introduced by is a refinement of Dirichlet's unit theorem and states that a subgro ...

* 1979 -

Goro Nishida was a Japanese mathematician. He was a leading member of the Japanese school of homotopy theory, following in the tradition of Hiroshi Toda. Nishida received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1973, after spending the 1971–72 academic year ...

* 1980 - Katsuhiro Shiohama * 1981 -

Masaki Kashiwara is a Japanese mathematician and professor at the Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS). He is known for his contributions to algebraic analysis, microlocal analysis, ''D''-module theory, Hodge theory, sheaf theory and represent ...

* 1982 - Shigeru Iitaka * 1983 -

Shigefumi Mori is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry, particularly in relation to the classification of three-folds. He won the Fields Medal in 1990. Career Mori completed his Ph.D. titled "The Endomorphism Rings of Some Abelian ...

* 1984 - Yukio Matsumoto * 1985 - Toshio Oshima * 1986 - Shinichi Kotani * 1987 -

Toshikazu Sunada is a Japanese mathematician and author of many books and essays on mathematics and mathematical sciences. He is professor emeritus of both Meiji University and Tohoku University. He is also distinguished professor of emeritus at Meiji in recogni ...

Geometry Prize

The Geometry Prize is a mathematics award granted by the Mathematical Society of Japan to recognise significant or long-time research work in the field of

geometry Geometry (; ) is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. Geometry is, along with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. A mathematician w ...

, including

differential geometry Differential geometry is a Mathematics, mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of Calculus, single variable calculus, vector calculus, lin ...

topology Topology (from the Greek language, Greek words , and ) is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a Mathematical object, geometric object that are preserved under Continuous function, continuous Deformation theory, deformat ...

, and

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...

. It was established in 1987.

Takebe Prize

In the context of its 50th anniversary celebrations, the Mathematical Society of Japan established the Takebe Prize for the encouragement of those who show promise as mathematicians. The award is named after

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

mathematician (also known as Takebe Kenkō).

Spring Prize

Autumn Prize

English Publications from MSJ

MSJ publishes the following journals in English. * Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (JMSJ) * Japanese Journal of Mathematics (JJM) * ''Publications of the Mathematical Society of Japan'' * ''Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics'' * ''MSJ Memoirs''MSJ Memoirs, Mathematical Society of Japan

Notes

References

Mathematical Society of Japan

External links

Official website

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