Chinese Mathematical Society
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| Name | Chinese Mathematical Society |
| Native name | 中国数学会 |
| Formed | 1935 |
| Founder | Shiing-Shen Chern; Sun Yirang; Lu Zhongyan |
| Headquarters | Beijing |
| Region served | People's Republic of China |
| Leader title | President |
Chinese Mathematical Society is a professional association founded in 1935 to advance mathematical research and education in China and represent Chinese mathematicians in domestic and international fora. It brings together scholars from institutions such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University and University of Science and Technology of China, and interacts with organizations including the International Mathematical Union, American Mathematical Society, London Mathematical Society and French Mathematical Society. The Society has played a central role in coordinating activities across provinces such as Guangdong, Sichuan, Jiangsu and municipalities like Shanghai and Beijing.
History
The Society was established in 1935 amid concurrent developments at institutions like Nankai University, Sun Yat-sen University, Wuhan University and National Central University. Early participants included mathematicians educated at Princeton University, University of Göttingen, Imperial College London and University of Paris, who returned after training under figures associated with David Hilbert, Emmy Noether, Élie Cartan and Hermann Weyl. During the anti-Japanese period linked to the Second Sino-Japanese War many members relocated to Chongqing and cooperated with academic centers such as Sichuan University and Chungking National University. After 1949 the Society reconstituted activities alongside institutions like the Chinese Academy of Sciences and ministries connected to national reconstruction projects including the First Five-Year Plan. In subsequent decades it navigated periods concurrent with the Cultural Revolution and later reforms associated with leaders of Deng Xiaoping era policies, expanding ties with bodies such as the Royal Society and Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung in the reform era.
Organization and Membership
The Society's governance features elected officers including a President, Vice Presidents and a Secretariat drawn from academics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nankai University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Renmin University of China and research institutes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Membership comprises faculty from provincial universities in Shandong, Hubei and Anhui as well as researchers at national laboratories such as National Center for Nanoscience and Technology and applied groups linked to enterprises like Huawei and China National Petroleum Corporation for industrial mathematics collaborations. Affiliated regional societies operate in municipalities including Tianjin, Chengdu and Shenyang》 while specialty committees cover areas associated with the names of researchers linked to Shiing-Shen Chern, Weinan E, Shing-Tung Yau and Loo-Keng Hua.
Activities and Publications
The Society publishes journals, monograph series and outreach materials associated with editorial boards containing editors from Acta Mathematica Sinica, Science in China Series A, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity and university presses at Peking University Press and Tsinghua University Press. It sponsors problem lists inspired by classic works such as those by Sophie Germain, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Henri Poincaré and modern compilations echoing projects associated with Hilbert's problems, Millennium Prize Problems and problems circulated via Mathematical Reviews. Educational outreach engages high schools involved in the China Mathematical Olympiad pipeline and teacher training programs linked to provincial education authorities in Jilin and Liaoning. The Society organizes translations and annotated editions of works by mathematicians like John von Neumann, André Weil, Israel Gelfand and Paul Erdős for Chinese readership.
Conferences and Awards
Regular national congresses convene scholars from institutions including Beijing Normal University and South China University of Technology and thematic conferences focus on fields associated with names such as Andrew Wiles (number theory), Terence Tao (analysis), Grigori Perelman (geometry) and Pierre Deligne (algebraic geometry). The Society administers awards and medals honoring contributions in areas linked with laureates of the Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Chern Medal and national science prizes; recipients have included mathematicians with affiliations to Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University and domestic institutes such as the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It also coordinates summer schools and workshops connected to international programs like the Korean Mathematical Society exchanges and joint symposia with the European Mathematical Society.
Contributions and Impact on Mathematics in China
The Society has fostered development in subfields nurtured at centers such as Institute for Advanced Study-influenced geometry groups, number theory nodes tied to Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton visitors, and analysis teams interacting with researchers from Courant Institute and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. Its activities accelerated growth in applied mathematics relevant to projects at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, China Railway, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation and mathematical modeling work associated with researchers trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. The Society has influenced curriculum reforms at Tsinghua University and Peking University and contributed to the career development of mathematicians who later held posts at University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago and Cambridge University.
International Cooperation and Relations
The Society maintains bilateral and multilateral links with organizations such as the International Mathematical Union, American Mathematical Society, European Mathematical Society, Japanese Mathematical Society and Korean Mathematical Society. Collaborative programs include visiting-scholar exchanges with departments at University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Princeton University and IHES as well as joint conferences with the Sociedad Matemática Mexicana and Brazilian Mathematical Society. It participates in global initiatives tied to projects by institutions like UNESCO and supports international prizes and fellowships involving partners such as Simons Foundation and Newton Fund.