The Kharkov Mathematical Society is an association of professional mathematician

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s in Kharkiv

Kharkiv

Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...

 aimed at advancement of mathematical

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 research and education. It was established in 1879 by the initiative of V.G. Imshenetskii, who also founded the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society

St. Petersburg Mathematical Society

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The society published the Communications of the Kharkov Mathematical Society from its establishment until 1960's, when it was closed for non-mathematical reasons.

Former presidents of Kharkov Mathematical Society

The following scientists were former presidents of the society:

• V.G. Imshenetskii
• Aleksandr Lyapunov
  Aleksandr Lyapunov
  Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. His surname is sometimes romanized as Ljapunov, Liapunov or Ljapunow....
  
  
• Vladimir Steklov
  Vladimir Steklov
  Vladimir Andreevich Steklov was a Soviet/Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.Steklov was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. In 1887, he graduated from the Kharkov University, where he was a student of Aleksandr Lyapunov. In 1889–1906 he worked at the Department of Mechanics of this...
  
  
• Dmitrii Sintsov
  Dmitrii Sintsov
  Dmitrii Matveevich Sintsov was a Russian mathematician known for his work in the theory of conic sections and non-holonomic geometry....
  
  
• Sergei Bernstein
  Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
  Sergei Natanovich Bernstein was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory.-Partial differential equations:...
  
  
• Naum Akhiezer
  Naum Ilyich Akhiezer
  Naum Ilyich Akhiezer was a Soviet mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his works in approximation theory and the theory of differential and integral operators.. He is also known as the author of classical books on various subjects in analysis, and for his work on the history of mathematics...
  
  

Notable members

Active members of the society included Boris Levin, Aleksei Pogorelov

Aleksei Pogorelov

Aleksei Vasil'evich Pogorelov , was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician. He was most famous for his contributions to convex and differential geometry...

, Vladimir Drinfeld and Lev Landau

Lev Landau

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. The society had also notable foreign members: for example, Gian Antonio Maggi and Giacinto Morera

Giacinto Morera

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 were corresponding members. This last one was posthumously awarded by the membership on October 31, 1909 (Old Calendar): apparently the members of the society were not aware of his death.