The Catalan Mathematical Society

The Institute of Catalan Studies (Institut d'Estudis Catalans) was founded in 1907 and the Catalan Society for Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics was founded in 1931 within its Science Section.

See the separate article for details of how that Society developed.

The Mathematics section with that Society expanded so rapidly that in 1986 the four branches of the Catalan Society for Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics each became a separate Society. Thus the Catalan Mathematical Society was founded.

The Society set out its aims in its statutes which include a mission [1]:-

... to cultivate the mathematical sciences; to spread its knowledge among the Catalan society; to foster its teaching and research, both pure and applied; and to publish whatever works that fit these goals.

The Society organises several different types of activities. It publishes books including translations into Catalan of classic texts such as Gauss' Disquisitiones Arithmeticae and Descartes' La Géométrie . It publishes two journals, the Bulletin which contains expository papers of wide interest, and the Notices which contains general information on the Society's activities. It gives awards such as the Evariste Galois prize for students and the Josep Teixidor prize for the best PhD thesis. It also represents the Catalan mathematical community in many situations including approaches to the education authorities.

JOC/EFR August 2004	School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland
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