Moscow Mathematical Society
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The Moscow Mathematical Society is a society of Moscow mathematicians aimed at the development of mathematics in Russia. The first meeting of the society was September 27 [O.S. September 15] 1864. Nikolai Brashman became the first president of MMO.
[edit] Former presidents
- Nikolai Brashman (1864-1866)
- A.Yu. Davidov (1866-1886)
- V.Ya. Zinger (1886-1891)
- Nikolai Bugaev (1891-1903)
- P.A. Nekrasov (1903-1905)
- Nikolai Zhukovsky (1905-1921)
- B.K. Mlodzeevskii (1921-1923)
- Dmitri Egorov (1923-1930)
- Ernst Kolman (1930-1932)
- Pavel Alexandrov (1932-1964)
- Andrey Kolmogorov (1964–1966, 1973–1985)
- Israel Gelfand (1966–1970)
- Igor Shafarevich (1970–1973)
- Sergei Novikov (1985-1996)
- Vladimir Arnold (1996-)
