AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

The 'American Mathematical Society (AMS)' is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards to mathematicians.
The AMS is an advocate of the typesetting program TeX, insisting that contributions be written in it and producing its own packages AMS-TeX and AMS-LaTeX.
AMS is one of the four parts of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM).

Contents

Early history

Presidents

1888 – 1900

1901 – 1950

1951 – 2000

2001 –

Publications

See also

External links

Early history

It was founded in 1888 as the ''New York Mathematical Society'', the brainchild of Thomas Fiske who was impressed by the ''London Mathematical Society'' on a visit to England. J.H. Van Amringe was first president and Fiske became secretary. The society soon decided to publish a journal, the ''Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society'', with Fiske as editor-in-chief. The journal, as intended, was influential in increasing membership.
In July, 1894, it became a national society and was reorganized under its present name. Later on, the headquarters were moved from New York to Providence, Rhode Island, and offices were added in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Washington, D.C.

Presidents

1888 – 1900

★ John Howard Van Amringe (New York Mathematical Society) (1888-1890)

★ Emory McClintock (New York Mathematical Society) (1891-94)

★ George Hill (1895-96)

★ Simon Newcomb (1897-98)

★ Robert Woodward (1899-1900)

1901 – 1950

★ Eliakim Moore (1901-02)

★ Thomas Fiske (1903-04)

★ William Osgood (1905-06)

★ Henry White (1907-08)

★ Maxime Bôcher (1909-10)

★ Henry Fine (1911-12)

★ Edward Van Vleck (1913-14)

★ Ernest Brown (1915-16)

★ Leonard Dickson (1917-18)

★ Frank Morley (1919-20)

★ Gilbert Bliss (1921-22)

★ Oswald Veblen (1923-24)

★ George Birkhoff (1925-26)

★ Virgil Snyder (1927-28)

★ Earle Hedrick (1929-30)

★ Luther Eisenhart (1931-32)

★ Arthur Coble (1933-34)

★ Solomon Lefschetz (1935-36)

★ Robert Moore (1937-38)

★ Griffith Evans (1939-40)

★ Marston Morse (1941-42)

★ Marshall Stone (1943-44)

★ Theophil Hildebrandt (1945-46)

★ Einar Hille (1947-48)

★ Joseph Walsh (1949-50)

1951 – 2000

★ John von Neumann (1951-52)

★ Gordon Whyburn (1953-54)

★ Raymond Wilder (1955-56)

★ Richard Brauer (1957-58)

★ Edward McShane (1959-60)

★ Deane Montgomery (1961-62)

★ Joseph Doob (1963-64)

★ Abraham Albert (1965-66)

★ Charles Morrey, Jr. (1967-68)

★ Oscar Zariski (1969-70)

★ Nathan Jacobson (1971-72)

★ Saunders Mac Lane (1973-74)

★ Lipman Bers (1975-76)

★ R. H. Bing (1977-78)

★ Peter Lax (1979-80)

★ Andrew Gleason (1981-82)

★ Julia Robinson (1983-84)

★ Irving Kaplansky (1985-86)

★ George Mostow (1987-88)

★ William Browder (1989-90)

★ Michael Artin (1991-92)

★ Ronald Graham (1993-94)

★ Cathleen Morawetz (1995-96)

★ Arthur Jaffe (1997-98)

★ Felix Browder (1999-2000)

2001 –

★ Hyman Bass (2001-02)

★ David Eisenbud (2003-04)

★ James Arthur (2005-06)

★ James Glimm (2007-08)

Publications

The AMS publishes Mathematical Reviews, a database of reviews of mathematical publications.
The AMS also publishes multiple journals:

★ General

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★ Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society - published quarterly,

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★ Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical Society - online only,

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★ Journal of the American Mathematical Society - published quarterly,

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★ Notices of the American Mathematical Society - published monthly, one of the most widely read mathematical periodicals,

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★ Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society - published monthly,

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★ Transactions of the American Mathematical Society - published monthly,

★ Subject-specific

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★ Mathematics of Computation - published quarterly,

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★ Conformal Geometry and Dynamics - online only,

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★ Representation Theory - online only.

See also

★ Mathematical Association of America

★ European Mathematical Society

★ List of Mathematical Societies

External links

★ The AMS website

★ A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888–1938 – by Raymond Clare Archibald

★ MacTutor: The New York Mathematical Society

★ MacTutor: The American Mathematical Society