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{{Infobox organization
| name                = Italian Mathematical Union
| native_name         = Unione Matematica Italiana
| native_name_lang    = it
| formation           = {{Start date and age|df=yes|7 December 1922}}
| image               = UMI.png
| logo                = Logo umi.png
| caption             = UMI's headquarters in Bologna
| headquarters        = [[Bologna]]
| fields              = [[Mathematics]]
| language            = Italian
| leader_title = President
| leader_name  = Piermarco Cannarsa
| main_organ          = Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana
| affiliations        = [[European Mathematical Society]]
| website             = https://umi.dm.unibo.it/
}}

The '''Italian Mathematical Union''' ({{langx|it|Unione Matematica Italiana}}) is a [[List of mathematical societies|mathematical society]] based in [[Italy]].

It was founded on December 7, 1922, by [[Luigi Bianchi]], [[Vito Volterra]], and most notably, [[Salvatore Pincherle]], who became the Union's first President.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cenni storici sull'Unione Matematica Italiana |trans-title=History of the Italian Mathematical Union |url=https://umi.dm.unibo.it/storia-dellumi/ |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=Unione Matematica Italiana |language=it-IT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Magenes |first=Enrico |date=1998 |title=Una testimonianza sul III Congresso dell'U.M.I |trans-title=A witness of the third Congress of the UMI |url=http://www.bdim.eu/item?id=BUMI_1998_8_1A_1_1_0 |journal=Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana |language=it |volume=1-A |issue=1 |pages=1–6 |access-date=2022-11-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Magenes |first=Enrico |date=1998 |title=L'U.M.I. nel primo dopo-guerra (1945-1951) |trans-title=The UMI in the early years after WWI (1945-1951) |url=https://eudml.org/doc/219441 |journal=Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana |language=it |volume=1-A |issue=2 |pages=145–152 |access-date=2022-11-30}}</ref>

==History==

[[Salvatore Pincherle]], professor at the [[University of Bologna]], sent on 31 March 1922 a letter to all Italian mathematicians in which he planned the establishment of a national mathematical society. The creation was inspired by similar initiatives in other countries, such as the [[Société mathématique de France]] (1872), the [[Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung]] (1891), the [[American Mathematical Society]] (1891) and, above all, the [[International Mathematical Union]] (1920).

The most important Italian mathematicians of the time - among all [[Luigi Bianchi]] and [[Vito Volterra]] - encouraged Pincherle's initiative also by personally sending articles for the future Bulletin; overall, about 180 mathematicians replied to Pincherle's letter. On December 7 of the same year the first meeting was held.

In 1928 the Italian Mathematical Union hosted the [[International Congress of Mathematicians]] in [[Bologna]].

==Activities==

The Union's journal is the ''[[Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana]]'', which contains two sections: one for research papers, and one for expository articles.

The Italian Mathematical Union awards the following prizes:

* the [[Bartolozzi Prize]]
* the [[Caccioppoli Prize]]
* the [[Baldassarri Prize]]
* the [[Vinti Prize]]
* the [[Stampacchia Medal]]
* the {{Interlanguage link|Tricerri Prize|lt=Tricerri Prize|fr|Prix Tricerri}}

==List of presidents==

* 1923-1932: [[Salvatore Pincherle]]
* 1932-1948: [[Luigi Berzolari]]
* 1949-1952: [[Enrico Bompiani]]
* 1952-1958: [[Giovanni Sansone]]
* 1958-1964: {{Interlanguage link|Alessandro Terracini|lt=Alessandro Terracini|it}}
* 1965-1968: [[Giovanni Ricci (mathematician)|Giovanni Ricci]]
* 1968-1971: [[Guido Stampacchia]]
* 1971-1974: [[Guido Stampacchia]]
* 1974-1977: {{Interlanguage link|Enrico Magenes|lt=Enrico Magenes|it}}
* 1977-1980: {{Interlanguage link|Carlo Pucci|lt=Carlo Pucci|it}}
* 1980-1983: {{Interlanguage link|Carlo Pucci|lt=Carlo Pucci|it}}
* 1983-1986: {{Interlanguage link|Vinicio Villani|lt=Vinicio Villani|it}}
* 1986-1989: {{Interlanguage link|Vinicio Villani|lt=Vinicio Villani|it}}
* 1989-1991: [[Alessandro Figà Talamanca]]
* 1991-1994: [[Alessandro Figà Talamanca]]
* 1994-1997: {{Interlanguage link|Alberto Conte|lt=Alberto Conte|it}}
* 1997-2000: {{Interlanguage link|Alberto Conte|lt=Alberto Conte|it}}
* 2000-2003: {{Interlanguage link|Carlo Sbordone|lt=Carlo Sbordone|it}}
* 2003-2006: {{Interlanguage link|Carlo Sbordone|lt=Carlo Sbordone|it}}
* 2006-2009: [[Franco Brezzi]]
* 2009-2012: [[Franco Brezzi]]
* 2012-2015: [[Ciro Ciliberto]]
* 2015-2018: [[Ciro Ciliberto]]
* 2018-2021: {{Interlanguage link|Piermarco Cannarsa|lt=Piermarco Cannarsa|it}}
* 2021-2024: {{Interlanguage link|Piermarco Cannarsa|lt=Piermarco Cannarsa|it}}

==References==
<references />
*{{cite web | title = The Italian Mathematical Union | url = http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/Italian.html | publisher = [[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive]] | access-date = 2007-06-27 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930091959/http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Societies/Italian.html | archive-date = 2007-09-30 }}
*[[Giovanni Sansone]], ''Le attività dell'Unione Matematica Italiana nel primo cinquantennio della sua fondazione'', Bollettino UMI, Serie IV, Suppl. fasc. 2 pp 7–43 (1974)

==External links==
*[http://umi.dm.unibo.it/ Italian Mathematical Union] {{in lang|it}}

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