| 词条 | Edinburgh Mathematical Society |
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The Edinburgh Mathematical Society is a mathematical society for academics in Scotland. HistoryThe Society was founded in 1883 by a group of Edinburgh school teachers and academics, on the initiative of Alexander Yule Fraser FRSE and Andrew Jeffrey Gunion Barclay FRSE,[1] both maths teachers at George Watson's College, and Cargill Gilston Knott, the assistant of Peter Guthrie Tait, professor of physics at the University of Edinburgh.[2] The first president, elected at first meeting on 2 February 1883, was J.S. Mackay, the head mathematics master at the Edinburgh Academy.[2] The Society was founded at a time when mathematics societies were being created around the world, but it was unusual in being founded by school teachers rather than university lecturers.[2] This was because, due to the very small number of mathematical academic positions in Scotland at the time, many skilled mathematics graduates chose to become schoolteachers instead.[3] The fifty five founding members contained teachers, ministers and students, as well as a number of academics from the University of Cambridge.[4] The proportion of teachers remained high compared to other mathematical societies, and by 1926 university members made up only one-third of the total members.[5] However, the dominance of teachers in the numbers of the society declined towards the 1930s, and between 1930 and 1935 no papers were presented in the Proceedings by teachers.[3] This was due to an increase in the number of academic positions available and the new requirement for teachers to undergo an additional year of vocational training.[3] The Edinburgh Mathematical Society is now mainly for academics.[3] ActivityThe Society organises and funds meetings and other research events throughout Scotland. There are normally eight meetings a year, at which talks are presented by mathematicians.[11] Every four years it awards the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize to an outstanding mathematician with a Scottish connection.[6] The Society is a corporate member of the European Mathematical Society,[7] and in 2008 it became a member of the Council for the Mathematical Sciences.[11] JournalsThe publishes an academic journal, the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, published by Cambridge University Press (ISSN 0013-0915.)[8] The Proceedings were first published in 1884, and is issued three times a year. It covering a range of pure and applied mathematics.[9] Between 1909 and 1961, the Society also published the Edinburgh Mathematical Notes, on the suggestion of George Alexander Gibson, a professor at the University of Glasgow, who wished to remove the more elementary or pedagogical articles from the Proceedings.[10] See also
References1. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Societies/EMS.html |title=The Edinburgh Mathematical Society |publisher=mcs.st-and.ac.uk |accessdate=16 September 2014}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite journal|title=Death of a Schoolmaster |author=Marit Hartveit |journal=EMS Newsletter |date=December 2009 |pages=27–30 |url=http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/pdf/2009-12-74.pdf |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304113048/http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/pdf/2009-12-74.pdf |archivedate=2016-03-04 |df= }} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Societies/EMSFounder.html |title=Founder Members of Edinburgh Mathematical Society |publisher=mcs.st-and.ac.uk |accessdate=16 September 2014}} 5. ^{{cite book |last1=Flood |first1=Raymond |last2=Rice |first2=Adrian |last3=Wilson |first3=Robin |title=Mathematics in Victorian Britain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YruifIx88AQC&pg=PA172 |date=29 September 2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-162794-1 |page=172}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ems.ac.uk/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Whittaker+Prize |title=Whittaker Prize |publisher=ems.ac.uk |accessdate=16 September 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917021629/http://www.ems.ac.uk/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Whittaker+Prize |archivedate=17 September 2014 |df= }} 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/member-societies |title=Member Societies |publisher=euro-math-soc.eu |accessdate=16 September 2014}} 8. ^{{cite web |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PEM |title=Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society |publisher=journals.cambridge.org |accessdate=16 September 2014}} 9. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.ems.ac.uk/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=About%20the%20EMS |title=About the Edinburgh Mathematical Society |publisher=ems.ac.uk |accessdate=16 September 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112230116/http://www.ems.ac.uk/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=About%20the%20EMS |archivedate=12 November 2014 |df= }} 10. ^{{cite web |url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Edinburgh_maths_notes.html |title=Edinburgh Mathematical Notes |publisher=mcs.st-and.ac.uk |accessdate=16 September 2014}} External links{{Official website|http://www.ems.ac.uk}}{{The European Mathematical Society}} 6 : 1883 establishments in Scotland|Learned societies of Scotland|Mathematics education in the United Kingdom|Mathematical societies|Organisations based in Edinburgh|Organizations established in 1883 |
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