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European Mathematical Society Newsletter, June 2003 Latvian Mathematical Society — 10 Years After In January 2003 the Latvian Mathematical Society (LMS) marked its 10th anniversary. Compared with such bodies as the London Mathematical Society (established in 1865) or our neighbour the Estonian Mathematical Society (which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2001), we are still in our infancy, being one of the youngest mathematical societies in Europe. However, mathematics and mathematicians existed in Latvia long before the LMS was founded, and therefore I would like to say some words about the prehistory of the LMS, mentioning some facts about mathematics and mathematicians related to Latvia before 1993 when the LMS was founded...
Mathematics in Latvia Through the Centuries Unfortunately none of the people to inhabit the land of present-day Latvia in the ninth millennium B.C. left their memoirs. New Indo-European tribes, living by stock raising and farming, appeared here in the second millennium B.C. They were the ancestors of the Baltic tribes - the Letts (the Kursi, Zemgali, Latgali) and the Lithuanians. The Latvian nationality subsequently came into being...
Latvian Mathematicians listed in
•Piers Bohl (1865-1921) | ||||||||
