American Mathematical Society
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The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians that also a publishers of mathematics journals, books, and databases.
Originally called the New York Mathematical Society, the AMS was founded in 1888 by Thomas Fiske, who returned to the New York after attending a meeting of the London Mathematical Society. In 1894, the name was changed to the American Mathematical Society and in 1951 the headquarters was moved to Providence, Rhode Island. Offices were later added in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Washington D.C. Today, the AMS has approximately 550 institutional members and more than thirty thousand individual members in 130 countries around the world. The AMS does many things to support young people studying mathematics or beginning their mathematical careers.
The AMS publishes a dozen journals with more than 20,000 pages each year. It publishes approximately 100 new book titles annually and has more than 3,000 titles in print. And it maintains the Mathematical Reviews database containing more than 2.2 million items, available online as MathSciNet.
The AMS should not be confused with the Mathematical Association of America, with which it puts on the Joint Mathematics Meeting each year in January.
