This article provides a list of mathematical societies.
International
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African Mathematical Union
The African Mathematical Union (or Union Mathematique Africaine) is an African organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Africa. It was founded in 1976 in Rabat, Morocco, during the first Pan-African Congress of Mathematicians ...
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Association for Women in Mathematics
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...
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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 curren ...
Foundations of Computational Mathematics
Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) is an international nonprofit organization that supports and promotes research at the interface of mathematics and computation. It fosters interaction among mathematics, computer science, and other ...
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International Association for Cryptologic Research
The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) is a non-profit scientific organization that furthers research in cryptology and related fields. The IACR was organized at the initiative of David Chaum at the CRYPTO '82 conference. ...
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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 memb ...
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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 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 ...
International Statistical Institute
The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. At a meeting of the Jubilee Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, statisticians met and formed the agreed statues of the International Statistical ...
Quaternion Society
The Quaternion Society was a scientific society, self-described as an "International Association for Promoting the Study of Quaternions and Allied Systems of Mathematics". At its peak it consisted of about 60 mathematicians spread throughout the ac ...
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Ramanujan Mathematical Society
Ramanujan Mathematical Society is an Indian organisation of persons formed with the aim of "promoting mathematics at all levels". The Society was founded in 1985 and registered in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. Professor G. Shankaranaraya ...
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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 ...
Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe
Unión may refer to:
Places
* Unión, Paraguay
* Unión Municipality, Falcón, Venezuela
* Unión, Montevideo, Uruguay
* Unión Cantinil, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
* Unión, San Luis, Argentina
* Unión Department, Córdoba Province, Argentina
* U ...
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Young Mathematicians Network
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Honor societies
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Kappa Mu Epsilon
Kappa Mu Epsilon () is an American mathematics honor society. It was 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 ...
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Mu Alpha Theta
Mu Alpha Theta () is an International mathematics honor society for high school and two-year college students. As of June 2015, it served over 108,000 student members in over 2,200 chapters in the United States and 20 foreign countries. Its main ...
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Pi Mu Epsilon
Pi Mu Epsilon ( or PME) is the U.S. honorary national mathematics society. The society currently has chapters at 371 institutions across the U.S.
History
Pi Mu Epsilon was founded at Syracuse University on , by Professor Edward Drake Roe, Jr.
Pi ...
National and subnational
This list is sorted by continent.
Country and/or subregion/city is given if not specified in name.
Africa
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Algeria Mathematical Society
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Bangladesh Mathematical Society
The Bangladesh Mathematical Society () is a learned society of mathematicians in Bangladesh.
History
The Bangladesh Mathematical Society was established in 1972. In 1974, the society started organising annual national mathematical conferences. I ...
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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.
Histor ...
, Kolkata, India
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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 (C ...
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Indian Mathematical Society
The 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. Ramaswamy Aiyer with its headquarters at Pune. The Society start ...
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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 Mosleh ...
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Israel Mathematical Union
The Israel Mathematical Union (IMU) () is an association of professional mathematicians in Israel. It is a member of the European Mathematical Society and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and has reciprocity memb ...
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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 ...
, Kerala State, India
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Korean Mathematical Society
The Korean Mathematical Society (KMS; ) is an academic organization in South Korea. Originally founded as the Korean Society of Mathematics and Physics, their name changed during their relaunch in 1952. Their stated goal is to promote mathematic ...
, South Korea
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Mathematical Society of Japan
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 ...
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Mathematical Society of the Philippines
The Mathematical Society of the Philippines (MSP) is a professional organization for mathematicians in the Philippines, recognized by the International Mathematical Union as the main national mathematics society for its country. It was founded in ...
Armenian Mathematical Union
The Armenian Mathematical Union or AMU (Armenian: , ՀՄՄ) is a mathematical society founded in Armenia in 1991.
The AMU is based in Yerevan, and has been a member of the European Mathematical Society since 2016. It is recognised by the Interna ...
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Austrian Mathematical Society
The Austrian Mathematical Society () is the national mathematical society of Austria and a member society of the European Mathematical Society.
History
The society was founded in 1903 by Ludwig Boltzmann, Gustav von Escherich, and Emil Müller ...
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Catalan Mathematical Society
The Catalan Mathematical Society (Catalan: , SCM) is a mathematical society in Barcelona, founded in 1931.
The SCM is a member of the European Mathematical Society, and is recognised by the International Mathematical Union as one of the national ...
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 ...
French Mathematical Society
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German Mathematical Society
The German Mathematical Society (, DMV) is the main professional society of German mathematicians and represents German mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU). It was founded in ...
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Hellenic Mathematical Society
The Hellenic Mathematical Society (HMS) () is a learned society which promotes the study of mathematics in Greece. It was founded in 1918 in Athens, and publishes the ''Bulletin of the Hellenic Mathematical Society'' (Δελτίο της Ελλ� ...
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is the UK's chartered professional body for mathematicians and one of the UK's learned societies for mathematics (another being the London Mathematical Society).
The IMA aims to advance ...
, UK
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Irish Mathematical Society
The Irish Mathematical Society () 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 international, but it mainly represent ...
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Italian Mathematical Union
The Italian Mathematical Union () 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 President.
History
Salvator ...
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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 profe ...
, Hungary
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Kharkov Mathematical Society
The Kharkiv Mathematical Society (, ) is an association of professional mathematicians in Kharkiv aimed at advancement of mathematical research and education, popularizing achievements of mathematics. The structure of the Society includes mathemat ...
Kyiv Mathematical Society
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, Kyiv, Ukraine
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Latvian Mathematical Society
The Latvian Mathematical Society (in Latvian: ''Latvijas Matemātikas Biedrība'', LMB) is a learned society of mathematicians from Latvia, recognized by the International Mathematical Union as the national mathematical organization for its countr ...
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Lithuanian Mathematical Society
The Lithuanian Mathematical Society or LMS (Lithuanian: , LMD) is a mathematical society founded in 1962.
The LMS is based in Vilnius, and is a founding member of the European Mathematical Society. It is a full member of the International Mathem ...
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London Mathematical Society
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's Learned society, learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh ...
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 ...
Moscow Mathematical Society
The Moscow Mathematical Society (MMS) is a society of Moscow mathematicians aimed at the development of mathematics in Russia. It was created in 1864, and Victor Vassiliev is the current president.
History
The first meeting of the society w ...
, Russia
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Norwegian Mathematical Society
The Norwegian Mathematical Society (, 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 Abel symposium and also awards th ...
Polish Mathematical Society
The Polish Mathematical Society () is the main professional society of Polish mathematicians and represents Polish mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
History
The society was ...
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Portuguese Mathematical Society
The Portuguese Mathematical Society (Portuguese: , SPM) is the mathematical society of Portugal, and was founded in Lisbon on December 12, 1940.
Its objectives are the development of education and the dissemination and promotion of mathematical res ...
Royal Dutch Mathematical Society
The Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap in Dutch, abbreviated as KWG) was founded in 1778. Its goal is to promote the development of mathematics, both from a theoretical and applied point of view.
The society publis ...
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Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
The Royal Spanish Mathematical Society ( Spanish: ''Real Sociedad Matemática Española'', RSME) is the main professional society of Spanish mathematicians and represents Spanish mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and th ...
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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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St. Petersburg Mathematical Society
The Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society () is a scientific society, mathematical society run by Saint Petersburg mathematicians.
Historical notes
The St. Petersburg Mathematical Society was founded in 1890 and was the third founded mathematical ...
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Swedish Mathematical Society
The Swedish Mathematical Society (Swedish: , SMS) is a mathematical society founded in Sweden in 1950.
It is a member of the European Mathematical Society and is recognised by the International Mathematics Union.
The Swedish Mathematical Society ...
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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 ...
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, meetings, ...
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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 advancing mathematical research, outreach, scholarship and education in Canada. The Society se ...
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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
A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary edu ...
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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.
Argentine Mathematical Union
The Argentine Mathematical Union (Spanish: , UMA) is a mathematical society founded in 1936.
The UMA is based in Santa Fe, Argentina, and is a member of the . It is recognised by the International Mathematical Union.
History
The first mathematica ...
Brazilian Mathematical Society
The Brazilian Mathematical Society (, SBM) is a professional association founded in 1969 at Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada to promote mathematics education in Brazil.
Presidents
*1969–1971 Chaim Samuel Honig
*1971–1973 Manfredo do ...
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Colombian Mathematical Society
The Colombian Mathematical Society (Spanish: , SCM) is an organisation founded in 1955 to promote the development of mathematics teaching and research in Colombia, and is the main professional society of Colombian mathematicians. It has two publ ...
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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New Zealand Mathematical Society
The New Zealand Mathematical Society is a New Zealand based learned society of mathematicians. It is listed by the Royal Society of New Zealand as the affiliate organisation responsible for mathematics research, and by the International Mathematic ...
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 ...
Maths
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include num ...
Mathematical societies
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include numbe ...