Polish Mathematical Society

Polish Mathematical Society
Formation	April 2, 1919
Headquarters	ul. Śniadeckich 8, 00-956 Warszawa, Poland
Location	Poland;
Official language	Polish, English
President	Jacek Miękisz
Key people	Tomasz Downarowicz, Klaudiusz Wójcik, Krystyna Jaworska, Piotr Kowalczyk, Leokadia Białas-Cież, Małgorzata Makiewicz, Dorota Mozyrska, Jan Poleszczuk
Website	http://www.ptm.org.pl/

The Polish Mathematical Society (Polish: Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne) is the main professional society of Polish mathematicians and represents Polish mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU).

History[edit]

The society was established in Kraków, Poland on 2 April 1919 . It was originally called the Mathematical Society in Kraków, the name was changed to the Polish Mathematical Society on 21 April 1920. It was founded by 16 mathematicians, Stanisław Zaremba, Franciszek Leja, Alfred Rosenblatt, Stefan Banach and Otto Nikodym were among them.^[1]

Ever since its foundation, the society's main activity was to bring mathematicians together by means of organizing conferences and lectures. The second main activity is the publication of its annals Annales Societatis Mathematicae Polonae, consisting of:

Series 1: Commentationes Mathematicae
Series 2: Wiadomości Matematyczne ("Mathematical News"), in Polish
Series 3: Mathematica Applicanda (formerly Matematyka Stosowana until 2012)
Series 4: Fundamenta Informaticae
Series 5: Didactica Mathematicae
Series 6: Antiquitates Mathematicae
Series 7: Delta, in Polish

The annals are also known under the Polish name Roczniki Polskiego Towarzystwa Matematycznego and under the English name Polish Mathematical Society Annals.

Stefan Banach Prize[edit]

The Polish Mathematical Society has awarded the Stefan Banach Prize to the following recipients:^[2]

1946: Hugo Steinhaus and Wacław Sierpiński
1947: Mieczysław Biernacki
1948: Władysław Orlicz
1949: Stanisław Mazur
1950: Jan Mikusiński
1951: Adam Bielecki
1952: Andrzej Alexiewicz
1953: Stanisław Hartman
1954: Tadeusz Leżański
1955: Witold Wolibner
1956: Zofia Szmydt
1957: Andrzej Grzegorczyk
1958: Mieczysław Altman
1959: Józef Meder
1960: Krzysztof Maurin
1961: Czesław Bessaga and Aleksander Pełczyński
1962: Edward Sąsiada
1963: Bogdan Bojarski
1964: Zbigniew Ciesielski
1965: Jan Mycielski
1966: Włodzimierz Mlak
1967: Wiesław Żelazko
1968: Władysław Narkiewicz
1969: Danuta Przeworska-Rolewicz and Stefan Rolewicz
1970: Roman Duda
1971: Stanisław Kwapień
1972: Andrzej Pelczar
1973: Adam Henryk Toruńczyk
1974: Leszek Pacholski
1976: Tadeusz Figiel
1977: Lech Drewnowski
1979: Przemysław Wojtaszczyk
1982: Lech Maligranda
1983: Tomasz Byczkowski
1984: Marek Bożejko
1985: Wojciech Banaszczak
1986: Henryk Hudzik
1987: Jarosław Zemanek
1988: Adam Paszkiewicz
1990: Marek Lassak
1991: Paweł Domański
1992: Marek Nawrocki
1993: Ryszard Szwarc
1997: Mariusz Lemańczyk
2001: Mieczysław Mastyło
2002: Rafał Latała and Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz
2003: Jerzy Jezierski and Wacław Marzantowicz
2007: Grzegorz Świątek
2008: Lech Tadeusz Januszkiewicz
2009: Tomasz Downarowicz
2010: Adam Paszkiewicz
2011: Tomasz Komorowski
2012: Jacek Świątkowski
2013: Henryk Woźniakowski
2014: Krzysztof Frączek
2015: Jan Okniński
2016: Adrian Langer
2017: Krzysztof Bogdan
2018: Wojciech Kucharz and Maksym Radziwill
2019: Yuriy Tomilov
2020: Jerzy Weyman
2021: Damian Osajda
2022: Piotr W. Nowak

International Stefan Banach Prize[edit]

The International Stefan Banach Prize (Polish: Międzynarodowa Nagroda im. Stefana Banacha) is an annual award presented by the Mathematical Society to mathematicians for best doctoral dissertations in the mathematical sciences. Its aim is to "promote and financially support the most promising young researchers" in the field of mathematics. It was founded in 2009 and is named in honour of a renowned Polish mathematician Stefan Banach (1892-1945). The laureates of the award also receive a cash prize of zl 25,000 (c.$6,500). List of laureates:

Presidents of the Polish Mathematical Society[edit]

Stanisław Zaremba (1919–1921, 1936-1937)
Wiktor Staniewicz (1921-1923)
Samuel Dickstein (1923-1926)
Zdzisław Krygowski (1926-1928)
Wacław Sierpiński (1928–1930)
Kazimierz Bartel (1930-1932)
Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1932-1936, 1937-1939)
Stefan Banach (1939–1945)
Karol Borsuk (1946)
Kazimierz Kuratowski (1946-1953)
Stefan Straszewicz (1953-1957)
Edward Marczewski (1957-1959)
Tadeusz Ważewski (1959-1961)
Władysław Ślebodziński (1961-1963)
Franciszek Leja (1963-1965)
Roman Sikorski (1965-1977)
Władysław Orlicz (1977-1979)
Jacek Szarski (1979-1981)
Zbigniew Ciesielski (1981-1983)
Wiesław Żelazko (1983-1985)
Stanisław Balcerzyk (1985-1987)
Andrzej Pelczar (1987-1991)
Julian Musielak (1991-1993)
Kazimierz Goebel (1993-1999)
Bolesław Szafirski (1999-2003)
Zbigniew Palka (2003-2005)
Stefan Jackowski (2005-2013)
Wacław Marzantowicz (2014-2019)
Jacek Miękisz (2020-present)^[3]

References[edit]

^ K.Ciesielski (2019). "The calendar of the first two years of PTM". Wiadomości Matematyczne vol.55, No.1, pp. 7-14. Polish Mathematcal Society. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
^ "Laureates of Stefan Banach Prize". Retrieved 2019-06-01.
^ "Władze Polskiego Towarzystwa Matematycznego". Retrieved 23 February 2020.

Janusz Kowalski (December 2004). "Polish Mathematical Society (PTM)" (PDF). EMS. Retrieved April 10, 2006.
Website of the journal Wiadomości Matematyczne, edited by the Polish Mathematical Society. Retrieved on January 9, 2009.

External links[edit]

Polish Mathematical Society website (in Polish)
"Polish Mathematical Society". Mathematical Societies, Medals, Prizes and other honours. Archived from the original on December 14, 2005. Retrieved June 26, 2005.

[mac-1] K.Ciesielski (2019). "The calendar of the first two years of PTM". Wiadomości Matematyczne vol.55, No.1, pp. 7-14. Polish Mathematcal Society. Retrieved 3 May 2022.

[2] "Laureates of Stefan Banach Prize". Retrieved 2019-06-01.

[3] "Władze Polskiego Towarzystwa Matematycznego". Retrieved 23 February 2020.

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