# Belgian Mathematical Society > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Belgian_Mathematical_Society > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Belgian_Mathematical_Society.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Mathematical_Society > Source revision: 1350258248 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Belgian Mathematical Society Belgian Mathematical Society Abbreviation BMS Type Scientific society Location Belgium Field Mathematics President Joost Vercruysse Website https://bms.ulb.ac.be/ The **Belgian Mathematical Society** (abbreviated as **BMS**), founded in 1921 by [Théophile de Donder](/source/Th%C3%A9ophile_de_Donder) at the [Université libre de Bruxelles](/source/Universit%C3%A9_libre_de_Bruxelles),[1] is the national mathematical society of [Belgium](/source/Belgium) and a member society of the [European Mathematical Society](/source/European_Mathematical_Society). Its mission is to assemble all Belgian mathematicians and defend their interests. Foreign members are also welcome.[2] The society publishes the journal *[Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin](/source/Bulletin_of_the_Belgian_Mathematical_Society_-_Simon_Stevin)* and distributes a newsletter to members, both at a rate of five issues per year. ## Presidents [3] - 14/3/1921-14/01/1922 Théophile De Donder (1872–1957) ULBruxelles - 1923–1925 [Henri Bosmans](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henri_Bosmans&action=edit&redlink=1) [[fr](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bosmans)] (1852–1928) ULBruxelles - 1925–1927 Alphonse Demoulin (1869–1947) [U Gent](/source/Ghent_University) - 1927–1929 [Charles Jean de La Vallée Poussin](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Jean_de_La_Vall%C3%A9e_Poussin&action=edit&redlink=1) [[fr](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Jean_de_La_Vall%C3%A9e_Poussin)] (1866–1962) [C. U. of Leuven](/source/Catholic_University_of_Leuven_(1834%E2%80%931968)) - 1929–1931 Adolphe Mineur (1867–1950) ULBruxelles - 1931–1933 [Lucien Godeaux](/source/Lucien_Godeaux) (1887–1975) ULBruxelles - 1933–1935 [Alfred Errera](/source/Errera_graph) (1886–1960) ULBruxelles - 1935–1937 Émile Merlin (1875–1930) U Gent - 1937–1939 Fernand Simonart (1888–1966) [C. U. of Leuven](/source/Catholic_University_of_Leuven_(1834%E2%80%931968)) - 1939–1945 Bony [U. Mons-Hainaut](/source/University_of_Mons) - 1945–1947 Henri Germay (1894–1954) [U Liège](/source/University_of_Li%C3%A8ge) - 1947–1949 [Georges Lemaître](/source/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre) (1894–1966) [C. U. of Leuven](/source/Catholic_University_of_Leuven_(1834%E2%80%931968)) - 1949–1951 Théophile Lepage (1901–1991) ULBruxelles - 1951–1953 Fernand Backes (1897–1985) U Gent - 1953–1955 Octave Rozet U Liège - 1955–1957 Louis Bouckaert (1909–1988) [C. U. of Leuven](/source/Catholic_University_of_Leuven_(1834%E2%80%931968)) - 1957–1959 [Paul Libois](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Libois&action=edit&redlink=1) (1901–1991) ULBruxelles - 1959–1961 Julien Bilo (1914–2006) U Gent - 1961–1963 Henri Garnir (1921–1985) U Liège - 1964–1965 Robert Ballieu (1914–1980) [UCLouvain](/source/UCLouvain) - 1966–1967 Eduard Franckx (1907– ) KMS – ERM - 1968–1969 [Pol Burniat](/source/Burniat_surface) (1902–1975) ULBruxelles - 1970–1971 Carl Clement Grosjean (1926–2006) U Gent - 1972–1973 René Lavendhomme (1928–2002) UCLouvain - 1974–1975 Henri Breny (1923–1991) U Liège - 1976–1977 Alfred Warrinier (1938) [K.U.Leuven](/source/K.U.Leuven) - 1978–1979 Robert Debever (1915–1998) ULBruxelles - 1980–1981 Franz Bingen (1932) [VUBrussel](/source/VUBrussel) - 1982–1983 José Paris UCLouvain - 10/1983-10/1986 Richard Delanghe (1940) U Gent - 10/1986-10/1988 Paul van Praag (1938-2019) U Mons-Hainaut - 10/1988-1992 Alain Verschoren (1954-2020) [U Antwerpen](/source/University_of_Antwerp) - 1993-10/1996 Luc Lemaire (1950) ULBruxelles - 10/1996-10/1999 Freddy Dumortier (1947) [U Hasselt](/source/University_of_Hasselt) - 10/1999-10/2002 Jean Schmets (1940) U Liège - 10/2002-10/2005 Adhemar Bultheel (1948) K.U.Leuven - 10/2005-10/2008 Cathérine Finet U Mons-Hainaut - 10/2008-10/2011 Stefaan Caenepeel (1956) VUBrussel - 10/2011-9/2015 Françoise Bastin U. Liège - 10/2015-9/2018 Philippe Cara VU Brussel - 10/2018-9/2023 Yves-Caoimhin (Yvik) Swan Uni. of Liège - 10/2023- Joost Vercruysse ULBruxelles ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [*BMS Statutes*](https://www.dropbox.com/s/664so52cey840j9/Belgian%20Mathematical%20Society%20Statuts.pdf) (PDF), 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [*About the BMS*](http://dwispc8.vub.ac.be/nieuwBMS/index.php?id=about-the-belgian-mathematical-society), 2022. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["BMS presidents"](https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~adhemar.bultheel/BMS_presidents.html). ## External links - [Official website](http://dwispc8.vub.ac.be/nieuwBMS/) v t e The European Mathematical Society International member societies European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology National member societies Armenia Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Mathematical Society of France SMAI SFdS Georgia Germany German Mathematical Society GAMM Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Italian Mathematical Union SIMAI AMASES Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Montenegro Netherlands Norway Norwegian Mathematical Society NSF Poland Portugal Romania Russia Moscow Mathematical Society St. Petersburg Mathematical Society Serbia Slovakia Slovenia DMFA SDAMS Spain Catalan Mathematical Society RSMS SEIO SEMA Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Edinburgh Mathematical Society IMA London Mathematical Society Institutional Members Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Centre de Recerca Matemàtica Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics EURANDOM Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Barcelona Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques Institut Henri Poincaré Institut Mittag-Leffler Institute for Mathematical Research International Centre for Mathematical Sciences Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF National United States France BnF data Czech Republic Israel Catalonia Other IdRef This article about an organization in Belgium is a stub. 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