Mathematician

A **mathematician** is someone who studies mathematics, either as a hobby or as a job. Many mathematicians are math professors at universities, or work at cryptography. Euclid, Ramanujan, Sir Isaac Newton are some of the most famous early mathematicians.

## Mathematical societies and foundations

|Acronyms||Name||Headquarters||Initiation|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|AAS||Australian Academy of Science||Australia||1954|
|Abertis||Fundación Abertis||Spain||1999|
|ACM||Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group||||1947|
|AMS||American Mathematical Society||United States||1888|
|ANCEFN||Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales||Argentina||1874|
|ANCYT||Academia Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología||Peru|||
|ANTS||Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium||Germany||1994|
|APS||American Physical Society||United States||1889|
|APSF||Alfred Pritchard Sloan Foundation||United States||1875|
|ASA||American Statistical Association||United States||1839|
|ASF||Académie des Sciences||France||1666|
|ASL||Association for Symbolic Logic||United States||1936|
|AWM||Association for Women in Mathematics||United States||1971|
|ASME||American Society Of Mechanical Engineers||United States||1880|
|AustMS||Australian Mathematical Society||Australia||1956|
|BMG||Berliner Mathematischen Gesellschaft||Germany||1901|
|BMS||Belgian Mathematical Society||Belgium||1921|
|CIMAT||Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A.C.||Mexico||1980|
|CMF||Fundación Chern||United States||2010|
|CMI||Clay Mathematics Institute||United States||1998|
|CMS||Canadian Mathematical Society||Canada||1945|
|CNCA||Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes de Chile||Chile||2003|
|CNRS||Centre national de la recherche scientifique||France||1939|
|CONICIT||Consejo Nacional para Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas||San Jose Costa Rica||1972|
|CRM||Centre de Recherches Mathematiques||Canada||1968|
|CSIC||Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas||Spain||1998|
|DMV||Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung||Germany||1993|
|ECM||European Congresses of Mathematics||Poland||1992|
|ECCOMAS||European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering||Europe||1901|
|EMS||European Mathematical Society||Germany|||
|EPFL||École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne||Switzerland|||
|ERC,CEI||European Research Council||Europe||2002|
|ESF||Fundación Europea de la Ciencia||Europe|||
|ETHZ||Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule-Zurich||Switzerland|||
|FBBVA||Fundación BBVA||Spain|||
|FCFM||Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile||Chile||1840|
|FCRI||Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació||Spain|||
|FPA||Fundación Príncipe de Asturias||Spain||1980|
|FSK||Fundación Sofía Kovalévskaia||Mexico||1942|
|GAMNI||Groupe pour l’Avancement des Méthodes Numériques de l’Ingénieur||France||1992|
|GenCat||Generalitat de Catalunya||Spain|||
|HAS||Hungarian Academy of Sciences||Hungary||1825|
|IAMP||International Association of Mathematical Physics||Europe||1976|
|ICA||Institute Of Combinatorics And Its Applications||Canada||1990|
|ICMAT||Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas||Spain||2008|
|ICHM||International Commission on the History of Mathematics||United States||1971|
|ICIAM||International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics||United States||1987|
|ICM||International Congress of Mathematicians|||||
|ICMI||International Commission on Mathematical Instruction||||1897|
|ICTCM||International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics|||||
|ICTP||Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics||Italy||1964|
|IEC||Institvt d'Estvdis Catalans||Spain||1907|
|IEEE-CS||IEEE Computer Society||United States||1946|
|IMA||Institute of Mathematics and its Applications||England||1964|
|IMAFF||Instituto de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental||Spain|||
|IMT||Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse||France||1887|
|IMU||International Mathematical Union||Germany||1920|
|INFORMS||Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences||United States|||
|ISDE||International Society of Difference Equations|||||
|Konex||Fundación Konex||Argentina||1980|
|KVA||Swedish Royal Academies||Sweden||1739|
|LMS||London Mathematical Society||England||1865|
|MAA||Mathematical Association of America||United States||1915|
|MEC||Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia de Spain||Spain|||
|MFO||Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach||Germany||1944|
|MICIT||Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología||San José Costa Rica|||
|MOS||Mathematical Optimization Society||||1973|
|MSJ||Mathematical Society of Japan||Japan||1946|
|NAS||National Academy of Sciences||United States||1974|
|NFT||Number Theory Foundation||United States|||
|NUST||National University of Sciences and Technology||Pakistan||1991|
|ÖMG||Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft||Austria||1903|
|PIMS||Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences||Canada||1996|
|RAS||Russian Academy of Sciences||Russia||1724|
|RSC||Royal Society of Canada||Canada||1882|
|RSL||Royal Society of London||England||1660|
|RSME||Real Sociedad Matemática Española||Spain|||
|RSS||Royal Statistical Society||England||1834|
|SASTRA||Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy||India||1984|
|SCM||Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques||Spain||1998|
|SEMA||Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada||Spain||1991|
|SEP||Secretaría de educación pública||Mexico|||
|SIAG||SIAM Activity Group||United States|||
|SIAM||Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics||United States||1951|
|SIMAI||Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale||Italy||1989|
|SMAI||Lisez maintenant Société de mathématiques appliquées et industrielles||France||1983|
|SMF||Société Mathématique de France||France||1872|
|SMM||Sociedad Matemática Mexicana||Mexico||1943|
|SPB||Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society||Russia||1890|
|UMALCA||Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe||Latin America||1995|
|UMI||Unione Matematica Italiana||Italy||1922|
|WFNMC||World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions||||1984|

### Europe

- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Emmy Noether
- Karl Weierstrass
- Leonid Kantorovich
- Lucy Joan Slater
- Sophie Germain

### Asia

- Masao Iri
- Masatake Mori
- Ryogo Hirota

## Other websites

- Mathematics Genealogy Project
- International Congress of Mathematicians
- Timeline of women in mathematics