Colombian Mathematical Society

The Colombian Mathematical Society (Spanish: , SCM) is an organisation founded in 1955 to promote the development of mathematics teaching and research in Colombia, and is the main professional society of Colombian mathematicians. It has two publications, the Colombian Journal of Mathematics and , and awards three prizes: the National Mathematics Award, the José Celestino Mutis Prize, and the José Fernando Escobar Prize.

The Colombian Mathematical Society is based in Bogotá, and is a member of the . It is recognised by the International Mathematics Union.

History The Colombian Mathematical Society was founded at a meeting in the home of on 10 August 1955. Carrizosa Valenzuela had been greatly influenced by two European mathematicians, Carlo Federici Casa and János Horváth (known in Colombia as Juan Horváth), who were working in Bogotá at the time. He felt the need to modernise Colombian mathematics and develop it as a subject independent of engineering.

The founding members of the society were (in alphabetical order):

Jorge Acosta Villaveces (1891–1965) Julio Carrizosa Valenzuela (1895–1974) (1928–1983) Guillermo Castillo Torres (1923–2000) Carlo Federici Casa (1906–2004) Luis de Greiff Bravo (1908–1967) (1903–1995) Leopoldo Guerra Portocarrero (1911–1964) Juan Horváth (1924–2015) Jose Ignacio Nieto (1930) Luis Ignacio Soriano (1903–1973) Antonio María Gómez (1913–1973) Luciano Mora Osejo (1928–2016) Dario Rozo (1881–1964) Gustavo Perry Zubieta (1912–1986) Gabriel Poveda Ramos (1931–2022) Michel Valero (1928–2008) Erwin von der Walde (1927–2016) Henry Yerly (1901–1984)

The society initially had two governing statutes, and Carrizosa served as the first president.

Activities The Colombian Mathematical Society organises the Colombian Mathematics Congress (Spanish: ) every two years, in association with various academic institutions in Colombia.

Commissions The SCM supports three commissions with specific goals. The Mathematics Education and Dissemination Commission (Spanish: ) aims to improve mathematics education at every level in Colombia. The Equity and Gender Commission (Spanish: ) aims to increase the participation and visibility of women in mathematics in Colombia, and to cooperate with other national and international organisations with similar goals. The Applied and Industrial Mathematics Commission ) was established in 2019 to promote applied mathematics in Colombia and to create an intellectual community of interested professionals and students. It organises the Colombian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Conference (Spanish: , MAPI).

Publications The Colombian Mathematical Society has two publications. The Colombian Journal of Mathematics (Spanish: ) is published in partnership with the National University of Colombia. It was founded by Juan Horváth in 1952, and was named until 1967. The journal is indexed by Mathematical Reviews and zbMATH. It has a 2022 CiteScore of 0.8 and a SCImago Journal Rank of 0.2. is published in partnership with the University of Los Andes. It is the official newsletter of the SCM, and is intended to be accessible to any reader interested in mathematics.

Past publications From its inception in March 1967 to 1979 the journal was jointly published by the SCM and the mathematics department of the National University of Colombia; since 1980 it is solely published by the latter. In 1975 the SCM and the mathematics department of the National University of Colombia created the journal , which focused on mathematics teaching. It is no longer published.

Prizes The Colombian Mathematical Society manages three mathematical prizes, which are awarded at meetings of the Colombian Mathematics Congress. The National Mathematics Award The National Mathematics Award (Spanish: ) is awarded to a mathematician who has "excelled in their professional work and made a fundamental contribution to the development of mathematics in [Colombia]." Past recipients of the prize are: Yu Takeuchi (1989) Jairo Charris Castañeda (1990) Alonso Takahashi Orozco (1991) Guillermo Restrepo Sierra (1992) Carlos Ruiz Salguero (1993) Xavier Caicedo (2005) Víctor Albis González (2007) Jorge Cossio (2009) José Raul Quintero (2011) Alfonso Castro (2013) Pedro Isaza (2015) José Oswaldo Lezama (2017) Federico Ardila (2019) Carlos Alberto Trujillo and Bernardo Uribe Jongbloed (2023)

The José Celestino Mutis Prize The José Celestino Mutis Prize (Spanish: ) is awarded to a teacher of mathematics who has "excelled in their professional work and made a fundamental contribution to the development of mathematics in [Colombia]." Past recipients of the prize are: María Falk de Losada (2011) Jesús Hernando Pérez (2013) Carlos Eduardo Vasco (2015) Alberto Campos Sánchez (2017) Myriam Caicedo (2019) Publio Suárez Sotomonte (2023)

The José Fernando Escobar Prize The José Fernando Escobar Prize (Spanish: ) is awarded to a mathematician who has "excelled in their research in pure or applied mathematics, through the achievement of exceptional published results." Past recipients of the prize are: Mauricio Fernando Velasco Gregory (2017) Juan Carlos Galvis (2019) Elder Villamizar (2025)https://comunicaciones.uis.edu.co/profesor-de-la-uis-recibe-premio-nacional-por-su-labor-en-divulgacion-matematica/

Governance Presidents The Society has had 17 presidents.

Julio Carrizosa Valenzuela, 1955–1975 Gustavo Perry Zubieta, 1957–1963 Carlos Lemoine Amaya, 1963–1967 Ricardo Losada Márquez, 1967–1968 Jaime Lesmes Camacho, 1968–1970, 1983–1987 Otto Raul Ruiz, 1970–1971 Jairo Charris Castañeda, 1971–1973 Carlos Ruiz Salguero, 1973–1975 Alonso Takahashi Orozco, 1975–1983 Myriam Muñoz de Ozac, 1987–1990 Víctor Albis González, 1990–1993 Ernesto Acosta Gempeler, 1993–1998 Leonardo Rendón, 1998–2003 Carlos H. Montenegro, 2003–2017 Bernardo Uribe, 2017–2020 Alf Onshuus, 2020–2023 Sofía Pinzón, 2023–present

Statutes On 13 May 1999 the statutes of the Society were reformed, increasing in number from two to 43. The statutes defining the name and purpose of the society are as follows.

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