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6 unusual facts about American Mathematical Society


Binary number

In a demonstration to the American Mathematical Society conference at Dartmouth College on 11 September 1940, Stibitz was able to send the Complex Number Calculator remote commands over telephone lines by a teletype.

Calcutta Mathematical Society

The Society has a reciprocity relationship with American Mathematical Society and Cambridge Philosophical Society, whereby a member of one of the societies can become a member of the other by paying just half the subscription.

Fields Institute

The Fields Institute Monographs (FIM) features the research work of the institute, and is jointly published with the American Mathematical Society.

Greg Hjorth

Hjorth: Classification and Orbit Equivalence Relations, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 75, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2000.

Murray H. Protter

For American Mathematical Society he was a long-time member (1941–) serving as

Society

Some academic, professional, and scientific associations describe themselves as societies (for example, the American Mathematical Society, the American Society of Civil Engineers, or the Royal Society).


Algebraic combinatorics

This period is reflected in the area 05E, Algebraic combinatorics, of the AMS Mathematics Subject Classification, introduced in 1991.

Clay Mathematics Monographs

Clay Mathematics Monographs is a series of expositions in mathematics co-published by AMS and Clay Mathematics Institute.

Jean Taylor

Taylor is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Women in Mathematics, and the American Mathematical Society.

Martin Stanislaus Brennan

Brennan was a member of several scientific societies, including the British Astronomical Association, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Astronomy and Astrophysical Society of America, the Saint Louis Academy of Science, the American Mathematical Society, and the National Geological Society.

Mathematical Surveys and Monographs

Mathematical Surveys and Monographs is a series of monographs published by the American Mathematical Society.

Mathlete

Publications such as the MAA's The American Mathematical Monthly and the AMS's Notices of the American Mathematical Society are widely read to maintain and hone mathematical ability.

Richard Duffin

John H. Hubbard (2010) "The Bott-Duffin Synthesis of Electrical Circuits", pp 33 to 40 in A Celebration of the Mathematical Legacy of Raoul Bott, P. Robert Kotiuga editor, CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes #50, American Mathematical Society.

Rochester Hills, Michigan

Among many achievements, he was a professor at Columbia University, president of the American Mathematical Society, and Dean of Carnegie Institute in Washington.

STIX Fonts project

Members of the STIX (Scientific and Technical Information Exchange) Fonts project, known collectively as the STI Pub consortium, include the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Mathematical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Physical Society, and Elsevier.


see also

Bocher

Bôcher Memorial Prize, founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher

Calcutta Mathematical Society

It has a relation of collaboration and co-sponsorship with the Indian National Science Academy, American Mathematical Society, Canadian Mathematical Society and the Australian Mathematical Society.

Eugene Trubowitz

with Joel Feldman, Horst Knörrer: Riemann Surfaces of Infinite Genus, AMS (American Mathematical Society) 2003

Herbert Federer

In 1987, he and his Brown colleague Wendell Fleming won the American Mathematical Society's Steele Prize "for their pioneering work in Normal and Integral currents."

Horst Knörrer

With Joel Feldman, Eugene Trubowitz: Riemann Surfaces of Infinite Genus, AMS (American Mathematical Society) 2003

Matilde Marcolli

Noncommutative geometry, quantum fields and motives. (with Alain Connes), American Mathematical Society, Colloquium Publications, 2008.

Thomas N.E. Greville

Greville was a member of the American Mathematical Society; the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; the Society of Actuaries; the Institute of Mathematical Statistics; the American Statistical Association; and the Parapsychological Association.