It was a landmark in the history of Indian Mathematics when a century ago, on April 4, 1907,
late
Shri V. Ramaswamy Aiyer ,
a Deputy Collector in the services of the then Madras Province,
Discovery of Srinivasa Ramanujan – the greatest mathematical genius of modern times in India.
When we pauses to reflect on Ramanujan’s life, we see that there were certain events
that seemingly were necessary in order that Ramanujan and his mathematics be brought
to posterity. One of these was V. Ramaswamy Aiyer’s founding of the Indian Mathematical
Society, for had he not launched the Indian Mathematical Society, the next necessary
episode, namely, Ramanujan’s meeting with Ramaswamy Aiyer at his office in 1910, would
also have not taken place. Ramanujan had carried with him one of his notebooks, and
Ramaswamy Aiyer not only recognized the creative spirit that produced its contents,
but he also had the wisdom to contact others in order to bring Ramanujan’s mathematics
to others for appreciation and support. The large mathematical community that has thrived
on Ramanujan’s discoveries for nearly a century owes a huge debt to V. Ramaswamy Aiyer
and the Indian Mathematical Society.
(Estd. 1907; Registration No. S-550, Delhi)
http://www.indianmathsociety.org.in
by
V M Shah
General Secretary, IMS
The objects of the Society is the promotion of Mathematical Study and Research.
Its central activity is to inspire and encourage researchers, educationists,
students and all the mathematics loving persons .
Professor B. Hanumantha Rao was the first President of the Society; from 1907 to 1912.
IMS Conferences
The First, Second and Third Conference of IMS were held respectively at Madras (1916),
Bombay (1919) and Lahore (1921). One pleasantly notes that the IMS had jurisdiction
beyond the boundaries of the present Indian State. The Fourth Conference of IMS was
organized at Pune in 1924. In those days the Conferences of the Society were organized
intermittently with a gap of more years than one. From 1951 onwards, the Conferences
of the Society are being organized annually every year.
The Silver Jubilee Celebrations, on the occasion of completion of twenty five years of
existence of IMS, were held at Pune on March 26, 1932 under the Presidentship of Wrangler
Principal R.P. Paranjape. It is at this conference that it was decided to start
the publication of another periodical, as a part of this Silver Jubilee Celebrations,
and accordingly the Society started a new Journal named The Mathematics Student in 1933.
The 25th (Silver Jubilee) Conference of IMS was held at Allahabad in 1959. It was
inaugurated by Late Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India.
The Annual Conferences of the Society are full of very enriching programmes such as
Plenary and Memorial Award Lectures by eminent mathematicians, several invited Lectures
and Symposia on current areas of research as also the Paper Presentation Competetion and
Presentation of large number of research papers by researchers from all over the Country.
The details of the venue of past conferences can be accessed
in
conferences.
Centenary Year Celebrations
The Centenary Year Celebrations of the existence of the Society took place during
73rd Annual Conference of the Society held under the auspices of the University of Pune,
Pune, in December 2007.
Prof. S.T. Yau (Fields Medalist), Prof. Richard Hamilton (Clay Award winner) and
Prof. S.R. S. Varadhan (Abel Prize Winner) delivered Plenary lectures during the Conference.
The Platinum Jubilee 75th Annual Conference
of the Society was held under the auspices of the Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil,
Tamil Nadu, in December 2009. On this occasion,
a Commemorative Postage Stamp
on the
“Indian Mathematical Society”
was issued by the Department of Posts (Philately Division), Government of India
to mark the completion of the hundred years of the establishment of the Society.
All these years, the Society has motivated and inspired a very large number of budding
mathematicians, and thus has served a great cause of promoting Mathematics Education
and Research in the Country.
To mark the occasion of this Centenary Year, Special Volumes of the Journal
(The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society, The Special Volume 1907-2007)
as well as of the Mathematics Student (The Mathematics Student, Special Centenary
Volume (2007)) were published.
Periodicals published by the Society
The Society publishes two periodicals
The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society
( J. Indian Math. Soc. , JIMS; The Journal ; ISSN 019-5839)
and
The Mathematics Student
( Math. Student ; the Student ; ISSN 0025-5742)
both of which are quarterly.
The Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society (ISSN 0019-5839):
* Only the research papers of high quality are published in the Journal .
From its very inception, the Society started publishing, 'Progress Reports’. The First
Progress Report was published in September 1907. Till December 1908, in all, eight
'Progress Reports’ were brought out. From 1909 the 'Progress Reports’ were rechristened
as Journal and it was published every two months till 1933. The First Editor of 'Progress Reports’
and later of the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society (J. Ind. Math. Soc.) was
M.T. Naraniengar
who continued till 1927 and nurtured it for twenty years. Later the Editorship of JIMS was
entrusted to
R. Vaidyanathswamy
who served as editor upto 1950. During his tenure of editorship, in 1934, the present
new series of JIMS was started and was turned into a quarterly Journal.
It was due to the hard work put in by these two pioneering editors that the JIMS established
itself as one of the leading international Journals, a position which it continues to hold
even today.
It may be noted that with great pride that
• 1911 volume of this Journal contains earliest contributions of the
great legendry mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. They were in the form of questions.
In fact a fifteen page paper entitled “Some properties of Bernoulli Numbers” contributed
by Ramanujan also appeared in the same 1911 volume of the Journal. He also published
12 of his research papers in the Journal of Indian Mathematical Society.
• S. S. Pillai, another brilliant Indian mathematician, who almost
solved the famous "Warring Problem", published 23 of his research papers in the Journal
of Indian Mathemtical Society and 8 papers in the Mathematics Student.
The Mathematics Student :
At the time of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations on the occasion of completion of
twenty five years of existence of the Indian Mathematical Society in 1932,
It may be noted with great pride that
• A conference, first of its kind in Asia, entitled "South Asian Conference
on Mathematical Education" under the directorship of K. Chandrasekharan was held at TIFR,
Bombay, during Feb, 1956 in which mathematicians like M. H. Stone, G . Choquet,
H. Freudenthal and a host of other world mathematicians participated; the entire
Proceedings of this conference has been published in the Mathematics Student Vol 54 (1956).
Currently, the following is published in The Mathematics Student:
• the texts of Presidential Addresses, the Plenary talks and the Award Lectures
delivered at the Annual Conferences,
• the abstracts of the research papers presented at the Annual Conferences,
• the texts of invited talks delivered at the Annual Conferences,
• research papers, and
• the Proceedings of the Society’s Annual Conferences, Expository & Popular articles,
Book Reviews, Reports of the IMS Sponsored lectures, etc.
Manuscript Submission
Manuscripts intended for publication should be submitted online in the LaTeX and pdf file or
in the standard word processing format (Word or Word Perfect) including figures and tables.
For manuscript style and other details the IMS website be visited.
For the Journal, manuscripts in the electronic form should be submitted to
Professor N. K. Thakare, Editor, J. Indian Math. Soc.
C/o. Department of Mathematics,
University of Pune, Pune – 411 007 (MS), India.
E-mail :
jimsmorane@gmail.com .
For the Mathematics Student, manuscripts in the electronic form should be submitted to
Professor J. R. Patadia, Editor, The Mathematics Student.
( Department of Mathematics, The M. S. University of Baroda )
5, Arjun Park, Near Patel Colony, Behind Dinesh Mill,
Shivananda Marg, Vadodara-390 007 (Gujarat), India.
E-mail :
jamanadaspat@gmail.com
There are no page charges for publications in the Journal as well as the Mathematics Student.
Also, authors of the papers printed in the Journal as well as the Mathematics Student are entitled to
20 reprints free of charge (only to the first named author in case of a joint authorship).
Subscriptions :
* Annual subscription for the Journal / the Mathematics Student :
For each periodical
• Rs. 1500/- for Libraries of Educational Institutions in India - provided the subscription is
direct or through an agent who gives complete name and address of the subscriber.
The supply will be made directly to the subscribing library.
• Rs. 4500/- for others for personal use or to the agents who do not supply the name
and address of the end user.
• $100/- for personal use or for Libraries outside India.
The agents are entitled to 10 % discount on their orders.
Membership of the Society
Life Membership Fees :
Rs.2000/- (US $1000/- for those residing outside India - referred to as International Life Members ).
The Life Members of the Indian Mathematical Society with their mailing addresses in India or the International
Life Members are entitled to a FREE copy of The Mathematics Student for their personal use (not for sale/resale).
They can subscribe the Journal at Rs.1500/- (US$ 35/-) for their personal use (not for sale/resale).
Ordinary Annual Membership Fees :
Rs. 200/- ( US $100/- for those residing outside India ).
Sessional Membership Fees :
Rs. 200/- ( US $100/- for those residing outside India ).
Sessional Members are those who join the Society only for a particular Session. They may contribute
papers for presentation and / or participate in any of the academic programmes held during the Session.
•
Membership form is available on the IMS website.
Business Correspondence and Payments :
All business correspondence be addressed to
Prof. S. K. Nimbhorkar,
Treasurer, IMS; Department of Mathematics,
Dr. B. A. M. University, Aurangabad – 431 004 (Maharashtra), India.
All payments are to be made to Prof. S. K. Nimbhorkar, Treasurer, IMS by an account payee DD drawn in favour
of “The Indian Mathematical Society” payable at Aurangabad (Maharashtra), India at the address
mentioned in the above.
IMS Library
The Library of the Indian Mathematical Society was started in 1907 at the Fergusson
College, Pune with
The Library receives many journals on Exchange basis and has a rich collection of back
numbers of reputed mathematical journals received from all over the world. The complete
catalogue of the back volumes of all the periodicals published by the Society as well as
those received in exchange by the Society and available in the IMS Library, Chennai, is
now displayed on the IMS website. There is a spate of request for xerox copies of
articles published in these journals and the Library attends to these demands promptly.
If a particular journal is not available in the IMS Library, the scholars/students are
requested to contact other Libraries where it is likely to be available providing them
with the addresses of those Libraries.
Memorial Award Lectures
During every Annual Conference of the Society, the following Memorial Award Lectures are arranged
as a part of the Academic Programme (each Award Lecture is of one hour duration with no parallel session).
1. P.L. Bhatnagar Memorial Award Lecture (Instituted in 1987)
2. Srinivasa Ramanujan Memorial Award Lecture (Instituted in 1990)
3. V. Ramaswamy Aiyer Memorial Award Lecture (Instituted in 1990)
4. Hansaraj Gupta Memorial Award Lecture (Instituted in 1990)
5. Ganesh Prasad Memorial Award Lecture (Instituted in 1993; and delivered every alternate year).
These Lectures carry a token honorarium of Rs. 2500/- each along with a Citation.
Further, as part of the Academic Programme, there may be
• Plenary lectures by eminent Mathematicians,
• Symposia on current topics,
• invited talks, and
• research paper reading sessions.
The Narasinga Rao Memorial Prize.
This Prize is awarded to the author of the best research paper published in
the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society or The Mathematics Student.
The Prize carries a cash award of Rs. 2000/- along with a Certificate.
The Prize will be recommended by a committee consisting of The Academic Secretary,
Indian Mathematical Society (Convener), Editor, Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society and
the Editor, The Mathematics Student.
The Prize will be awarded during the Inaugural Function of the Annual Conference of the
Indian Mathematical Society.
Following conditions apply :
1. The research paper must be under single authorship, the research work
must have been carried out in India and the post - doctoral research work is preferred.
2. The upper age limit of the awardee should not be more than 45 years as on the date
of receipt of the paper by the Editor.
P.L. Bhatnagar Memorial Prize.
This Prize is awarded annually to the top scorer of the Indian team at the International
Mathematical Olympiad. It consists of a cash award of Rs. 1000/- and a Certificate. The award
is presented during the Inaugural Session of the Annual Conference of the Indian
Mathematical Society.
Award of Various Prizes for Research Paper Presentations
In order to encourage and inspire the young and budding research workers, the Society
holds, during its Annual Conferences, a Special Session of Paper Presentation Competition
for various Prizes to be awarded to the best research paper presented. This Special Session
is held as a part of the Academic Programme with no other parallel session.
1. IMS Prize : Group-1 : Discrete Mathematics (Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Posets), Lattice Theory, Set Theory, Logic, Number Theory and related areas.
2. IMS Prize : Group-2 : Algebraic Geometry, Geometry, Topology, Algebraic Topology, and related areas.
3. IMS Prize : Group-3 : Measure Theory, Probability Theory, Stochastic Processes, and related areas.
4. IMS Prize : Group-4 : Differential/Integral/Functional equations and inequalities, Special Functions , Numerical Analysis and related areas.
5. IMS Prize : Group-5 : Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Electro-magnetic Theory, Magneto-Hydrodynamics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Relativity and related areas.
6. IMS Prize : Group-6 : Operations Research, Optimization, Computational Mathematics, Information Technology, Biomathematics, History of Mathematics and related areas
A M U Prize : Algebra, Differential Geometry and Functional Analysis.
V M Shah Prize : Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Fourier Analysis, Harmonic Analysis, Approximation Theory and related areas.
Three / Four judges are appointed by the Council for “Paper Presentation Competition” for deciding the award of various Prizes.
Each of these eight prizes listed above carries a cash award of Rs.1000/- and a Certificate.
Following conditions apply :
1. Only the Members of the Society are eligible for participation in the Competition. (Non-members can participate by becomeing annual/sessional members by paying Rs.200/- . The Fees can be paid to the
Treasurer, Prof. S. K. Nimbhorkar, Department of Mathematics, Dr. B. A. M. University, Aurangabad – 431 004
by sending
a payee’s a/c Bank Draft drawn in favour of the "Indian Mathematical Society" payable at Aurangabad,
so as to reach him by December 10, 2011).
2. The upper age limit of a candidate for participation in the Competition is 40 years as on December 31, of the respective year.
3. a) The paper to be presented for the competition has to be under single authorship
b) Independent work at the post-doctoral level is preferred.
c) The work must have been carried out in India.
d) Stress will be on both, quality of research as well as performance during the presentation.
4.Two copies of the full paper with the abstract in triplicate (not exceeding 250 words) (prepared as per the details given in the following) as well as its electronic version in .pdf format should reach to
Prof. Satya Deo ,
Academic Secretary,
Harish Chandra Research Institute,Chhatnag Road, Jhusi , Allahabad - 211 019 (UP), India. E-mail:
Note : One who is already awarded a prize in a certain area in the past is not expected
to participate in the competition for the prize in the same area.
IMS Sponsored Lectures
To popularize Mathematics and to create awareness regarding the Society and its
activities in the Country, the Society has a scheme of Sponsored Lectures.
It provides a token support of Rs.1000/- to a number of Departments / Institutions
for organizing popular, semi-technical and technical lectures.
IMS News Letters.
Two News Letters (March & August), in a year, are published by the Society. More detailed information
may be obtained by referring to the latest News Letter from the IMS Website.
List of Life Members
The Complete List of the Life Members of the Society is available on the IMS website
along with their unique Membership Numbers. Members whose mails have been returned
undelivered are marked accordingly with a note in red along with their names on the
IMS website.
Society looks forward to their correct addresses.
For any additional information, other links of IMS website be surfed.