Mathematician: Person with an extensive knowledge of mathematics

Many mathematicians are math professors at universities, or work at cryptography. Euclid, Ramanujan, Sir Isaac Newton are some of the most famous early mathematicians.

Mathematical societies and foundations

Acronyms	Name	Headquarters	Initiation
AAS	Australian Academy of Science	Australia	1954
Abertis	Fundación Abertis	Spain	1999
ACM	Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group		1947
AMS	American Mathematical Society	United States	1888
ANCEFN	Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales	Argentina	1874
ANCYT	Academia Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología	Peru
ANTS	Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium	Germany	1994
APS	American Physical Society	United States	1889
APSF	Alfred Pritchard Sloan Foundation	United States	1875
ASA	American Statistical Association	United States	1839
ASF	Académie des Sciences	France	1666
ASL	Association for Symbolic Logic	United States	1936
AWM	Association for Women in Mathematics	United States	1971
ASME	American Society Of Mechanical Engineers	United States	1880
AustMS	Australian Mathematical Society	Australia	1956
BMG	Berliner Mathematischen Gesellschaft	Germany	1901
BMS	Belgian Mathematical Society	Belgium	1921
CIMAT	Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A.C.	Mexico	1980
CMF	Fundación Chern	United States	2010
CMI	Clay Mathematics Institute	United States	1998
CMS	Canadian Mathematical Society	Canada	1945
CNCA	Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes de Chile	Chile	2003
CNRS	Centre national de la recherche scientifique	France	1939
CONICIT	Consejo Nacional para Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas	San Jose Costa Rica	1972
CRM	Centre de Recherches Mathematiques	Canada	1968
CSIC	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas	Spain	1998
DMV	Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung	Germany	1993
ECM	European Congresses of Mathematics	Poland	1992
ECCOMAS	European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering	Europe	1901
EMS	European Mathematical Society	Germany
EPFL	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
ERC,CEI	European Research Council	Europe	2002
ESF	Fundación Europea de la Ciencia	Europe
ETHZ	Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule-Zurich	Switzerland
FBBVA	Fundación BBVA	Spain
FCFM	Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile	Chile	1840
FCRI	Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació	Spain
FPA	Fundación Príncipe de Asturias	Spain	1980
FSK	Fundación Sofía Kovalévskaia	Mexico	1942
GAMNI	Groupe pour l’Avancement des Méthodes Numériques de l’Ingénieur	France	1992
GenCat	Generalitat de Catalunya	Spain
HAS	Hungarian Academy of Sciences	Hungary	1825
IAMP	International Association of Mathematical Physics	Europe	1976
ICA	Institute Of Combinatorics And Its Applications	Canada	1990
ICMAT	Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas	Spain	2008
ICHM	International Commission on the History of Mathematics	United States	1971
ICIAM	International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics	United States	1987
ICM	International Congress of Mathematicians
ICMI	International Commission on Mathematical Instruction		1897
ICTCM	International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics
ICTP	Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics	Italy	1964
IEC	Institvt d'Estvdis Catalans	Spain	1907
IEEE-CS	IEEE Computer Society	United States	1946
IMA	Institute of Mathematics and its Applications	England	1964
IMAFF	Instituto de Matemáticas y Física Fundamental	Spain
IMT	Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse	France	1887
IMU	International Mathematical Union	Germany	1920
INFORMS	Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences	United States
ISDE	International Society of Difference Equations
Konex	Fundación Konex	Argentina	1980
KVA	Swedish Royal Academies	Sweden	1739
LMS	London Mathematical Society	England	1865
MAA	Mathematical Association of America	United States	1915
MEC	Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia de Spain	Spain
MFO	Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach	Germany	1944
MICIT	Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología	San José Costa Rica
MOS	Mathematical Optimization Society		1973
MSJ	Mathematical Society of Japan	Japan	1946
NAS	National Academy of Sciences	United States	1974
NFT	Number Theory Foundation	United States
NUST	National University of Sciences and Technology	Pakistan	1991
ÖMG	Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft	Austria	1903
PIMS	Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences	Canada	1996
RAS	Russian Academy of Sciences	Russia	1724
RSC	Royal Society of Canada	Canada	1882
RSL	Royal Society of London	England	1660
RSME	Real Sociedad Matemática Española	Spain
RSS	Royal Statistical Society	England	1834
SASTRA	Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy	India	1984
SCM	Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques	Spain	1998
SEMA	Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada	Spain	1991
SEP	Secretaría de educación pública	Mexico
SIAG	SIAM Activity Group	United States
SIAM	Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics	United States	1951
SIMAI	Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale	Italy	1989
SMAI	Lisez maintenant Société de mathématiques appliquées et industrielles	France	1983
SMF	Société Mathématique de France	France	1872
SMM	Sociedad Matemática Mexicana	Mexico	1943
SPB	Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society	Russia	1890
UMALCA	Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe	Latin America	1995
UMI	Unione Matematica Italiana	Italy	1922
WFNMC	World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions		1984

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Leonhard Euler
Sofja Wassiljewna Kowalewskaja, the first woman to become a math professor.

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