The Kharkiv Mathematical Society (, ) is an association of professional

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

s in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

aimed at advancement of

mathematical Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

research and education, popularizing achievements of mathematics. The structure of the Society includes mathematicians of Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and other higher educational institutions of Kharkiv.

History and members of the Kharkiv Mathematical Society

Kharkov Mathematical Society was established in 1879 at Kharkov University by the initiative of Vasilii Imshenetskii, who also later founded the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society. According to the statute of the society, "the aim of the Kharkov Mathematical Society was to support the development of mathematical science and education". From 1885 to 1902 in Kharkov lived and worked an outstanding Russian mathematician,

Aleksandr Lyapunov Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ляпуно́в, – 3 November 1918) was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. He was the son of the astronomer Mikhail Lyapunov and the brother of t ...

: during this period, Lyapunov's activities played an important role in the development of the Society. From 1902 to 1906, the Kharkov Mathematical Society was headed by Vladimir Steklov, the outstanding student of

, who later organized and became the first director of the Institute of Physics and Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Since 1906 and for the next almost forty years the Society was headed by a well-known geometer

Dmitrii Sintsov Dmitrii Matveyevich Sintsov (; 20 November 1867, Vyatka – 28 January 1946, Kharkiv) was a Russian mathematician known for his work in the theory of conic section A conic section, conic or a quadratic curve is a curve obtained from a cone ...

. Due to his initiatives, the activities of the Society significantly contributed to the improvement of mathematical education in Kharkov. In 1933

Naum Akhiezer Naum Ilyich Akhiezer (; ; 6 March 1901 – 3 June 1980) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his works in approximation theory and the theory of differential and integral operators. He is also known as the autho ...

had moved to Kharkov and headed the Institute of Mathematics. From 1947 Akhiezer became the head of KMS. Thanks to his efforts, the mathematical community of Kharkiv has significantly strengthened. Later, the Society was headed by

Aleksei Pogorelov Aleksei Vasilyevich Pogorelov (, ; 3 March 1919 – 17 December 2002), was a Soviet mathematician. Specialist in the field of convex and differential geometry, geometric PDEs and elastic shells theory, the author of novel school textbooks on ...

Vladimir Marchenko Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Marchenko (; born 7 July 1922) is a Ukrainian mathematician who specialises in mathematical physics. Biography Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Marchenko was born in Kharkiv on 7 July 1922. He defended his PhD thesis in 1948 unde ...

, Iossif Ostrovskii. Currently, the president of the Society is Yeugen Kruslov. At different times, members of society were Konstantin Andreev,

, Yeugen von Beyer,

Sergei Bernstein Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (, sometimes Romanized as ; 5 March 1880 – 26 October 1968) was a Ukrainian and Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theo ...

, Yakov Blank, Alexander Borisenko, Valentina Borok,

Dmitry Grave Dmytro Oleksandrovych Grave (, ; 6 September 1863 – 19 December 1939) was a Ukrainian, Russian and Soviet mathematician. Naum Akhiezer, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Mikhailo Kravchuk, and Boris Delaunay were among his students. Brief history Dmit ...

, Israel Glazman,

Vladimir Drinfeld Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld (; born February 14, 1954), surname also romanized as Drinfel'd, is a mathematician from Ukraine, who immigrated to the United States and works at the University of Chicago. Drinfeld's work connected algebraic geome ...

, Gershon Drinfeld, Alexandre Eremenko, Emmanuil Zhmud, Vladimir Kadets,

Mikhail Kadets Mikhail Iosiphovich Kadets (, , sometimes transliterated as Kadec, 30 November 1923 – 7 March 2011) was a Soviet-born Jewish mathematician working in analysis and the theory of Banach spaces. Life and work Kadets was born in Kyiv. In 1943 ...

Mark Krein Mark Grigorievich Krein (, ; 3 April 1907 – 17 October 1989) was a Soviet mathematician, one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. He is known for works in operator theory (in close connection with concrete problems ...

Lev Landau Lev Davidovich Landau (; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. He was considered as one of the last scientists who were universally well-versed and ma ...

, Naum Landkof, Boris Levin,

Boris Levitan Boris Levitan (7 June 1914 – 4 April 2004) was a mathematician who worked on almost periodic functions, Sturm–Liouville operators and inverse scattering. Levitan was born in Berdyansk (southeastern Ukraine), and grew up in Kharkiv ...

, Mikhail Livsic, Yury Lyubich,

Anatoly Myshkis Anatoly ( , ) is a common Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name, derived from the Greek name ''Anatolios'' (), meaning "sunrise." Saint Anatolius of Constantinople was a fifth-century saint who became the first patriarch of Constantinople ...

, Iossif Ostrovskii, Leonid Pastur, Alexander Povzner,

, Vladimir Steklov, Anton Sushkevich, Gennady Feldman, Yeugen Kruslov, Igor Chueshov, Dmitry Shepelsky, Maria Scherbina. In 1990

was awarded by

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of Mathematicians, International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place e ...

Publishing activities of the Society

Almost immediately after the foundation, since 1880, the Society published the ''Communications of the Kharkov Mathematical Society'' (). At first, there were two issues a year in size ranging from two to five printed sheets. In 1960, the publications of the ''Communications of the Kharkov Mathematical Society'' were suspended. Later, in 1965 due to the efforts of

the journal ''Theory of functions, functional analysis and applications'' was founded, which was published until 1992. From 1994 to 1999 the Kharkiv Mathematical Society participated in the publication of the journal ''Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry''.

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