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  InitiationAAS Australian Academy of ScienceAustralia1954Abertis Fundación AbertisSpain1999ACM Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group1947AMS American Mathematical SocietyUnited States1888ANCEFN Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y NaturalesArgentina1874ANCYT Academia Nacional de Ciencia y TecnologíaPeruANTS Algorithmic Number Theory SymposiumGermany1994APS American Physical SocietyUnited States1889APSF Alfred Pritchard Sloan FoundationUnited States1875ASA American Statistical AssociationUnited States1839ASF  Académie des SciencesFrance1666ASL Association for Symbolic LogicUnited States1936AWM Association for Women in MathematicsUnited States1971ASME  American Society Of Mechanical EngineersUnited States1880AustMS  Australian Mathematical SocietyAustralia1956BMG Berliner Mathematischen GesellschaftGermany1901BMS Belgian Mathematical Society Belgium1921CIMAT Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A.C.Mexico1980CMF Fundación Chern United States2010CMI  Clay Mathematics InstituteUnited States1998CMS Canadian Mathematical SocietyCanada1945CNCA Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes de ChileChile2003CNRS Centre national de la recherche scientifiqueFrance1939CONICIT Consejo Nacional para Investigaciones Científicas y TecnológicasSan Jose Costa Rica1972CRM  Centre de Recherches MathematiquesCanada1968CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain1998DMVDeutsche Mathematiker-VereinigungGermany1993ECM  European Congresses of MathematicsPoland1992ECCOMAS  European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and EngineeringEurope1901EMS European Mathematical SocietyGermanyEPFL École polytechnique fédérale de LausanneSwitzerlandERC,CEI  European Research CouncilEurope2002ESF  Fundación Europea de la CienciaEuropeETHZ  Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule-ZurichSwitzerlandFBBVA Fundación BBVASpainFCFM  Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de ChileChile1840FCRI  Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la InnovacióSpainFPA  Fundación Príncipe de AsturiasSpain1980FSK  Fundación Sofía KovalévskaiaMexico1942GAMNI  Groupe pour l’Avancement des Méthodes Numériques de l’IngénieurFrance1992GenCat  Generalitat de CatalunyaSpainHAS  Hungarian Academy of SciencesHungary 1825IAMP  International Association of Mathematical PhysicsEurope1976ICA  Institute Of Combinatorics And Its ApplicationsCanada1990ICMAT  Instituto de Ciencias MatemáticasSpain2008ICHM  International Commission on the History of MathematicsUnited States1971ICIAM International Council for Industrial and Applied MathematicsUnited States1987ICM International Congress of MathematiciansICMI International Commission on Mathematical Instruction1897ICTCM International Conference on Technology in Collegiate MathematicsICTP  Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical PhysicsItaly1964IEC  Institvt d'Estvdis CatalansSpain1907IEEE-CS IEEE Computer SocietyUnited States1946IMA  Institute of Mathematics and its ApplicationsEngland1964IMAFF Instituto de Matemáticas y Física FundamentalSpainIMT  Institut de Mathématiques de ToulouseFrance1887IMU  International Mathematical UnionGermany 1920INFORMS  Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences United StatesISDEInternational Society of Difference EquationsKonex  Fundación KonexArgentina1980KVA  Swedish Royal AcademiesSweden1739LMS  London Mathematical SocietyEngland1865MAA  Mathematical Association of AmericaUnited States1915MEC Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia de SpainSpainMFO  Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut OberwolfachGermany1944MICIT Ministerio de Ciencia y TecnologíaSan José Costa RicaMOS  Mathematical Optimization Society1973MSJ Mathematical Society of JapanJapan1946NAS  National Academy of SciencesUnited States1974NFT Number Theory FoundationUnited StatesNUST  National University of Sciences and TechnologyPakistan1991ÖMG  Österreichische Mathematische GesellschaftAustria1903PIMS  Pacific Institute for the Mathematical SciencesCanada1996RAS Russian Academy of SciencesRussia1724RSC Royal Society of CanadaCanada1882RSL Royal Society of LondonEngland1660RSME  Real Sociedad Matemática EspañolaSpainRSS Royal Statistical SocietyEngland1834SASTRA Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research AcademyIndia1984SCMSocietat Catalana de MatemàtiquesSpain1998SEMA Sociedad Española de Matemática AplicadaSpain 1991SEP Secretaría de educación públicaMexico SIAG  SIAM Activity GroupUnited StatesSIAM  Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsUnited States1951SIMAI  Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale Italy1989SMAI Lisez maintenant Société de mathématiques appliquées et industrielles France1983SMF  Société Mathématique de FranceFrance1872SMM  Sociedad Matemática MexicanaMexico1943SPB  Saint Petersburg Mathematical SocietyRussia1890UMALCA Unión Matemática de América Latina y el CaribeLatin America1995UMI  Unione Matematica ItalianaItaly1922WFNMC World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions1984

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Notable mathematicians

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

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