AMS Presidents: A Timeline

10. Maxime Bôcher (1867-1918)

President, 1909-1910

Bôcher was interested in all aspects of the theory of ordinary linear differential equations. He was a founder and editor-in-chief of the Transactions of the AMS. The first award created by the AMS was the Bôcher Memorial Prize, which was established in 1923 and endowed by contributions from members of the Society. The US$5,000 prize, awarded every three years, honors outstanding recent work in analysis. Bôcher was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

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• The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
• Mathematics Genealogy Project
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