Membership Categories

Ordinary Membership is available to:

  • Academic staff of a university or similar institution in the United Kingdom who are substantially engaged in teaching and research in mathematics (including all its diverse applications).
  • Mathematicians in other occupations, whether or not they are currently employed, who have a higher degree in mathematics, or who use mathematics in their work at a comparable level, or whose work would benefit substantially from the Society's activities in promoting and extending mathematical knowledge.
  • Others whom Council considers to have contributed substantially to the objects of the Society.
  • Members of some overseas Mathematical Societies who are not normally resident in the UK may join under the terms of various Reciprocity Agreements, although Council reserves the right to consider each application individually.  The organisations with whom the Society has agreements are:
American Mathematical Society Unione Matematica Italiana 
Australian Mathematical Society Mathematical Society of Japan
Belgian Mathematical Society New Zealand Mathematical Society
Canadian Mathematical Society Nigerian Mathematical Society
Dansk Matematisk Forenig Norsk Matematisk Forening
Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung Real Sociedad Matemática Española
Finnish Mathematical Society Swiss Mathematical Society
Société Mathématique de France South East Asian Mathematical Society
Indian Mathematical Society Svenska Mathematikersamfundet
  Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap

Associate Membership is available to:

-Early career mathematicians who are within three years of obtaining their PhD in mathematics (full-time equivalent and excluding any career breaks)

·Research students who are studying for a PhD in mathematics.

·Undergraduate students who are studying for a degree in mathematics or a degree with a significant mathematical content.

 

Council also has the authority to elect Honorary Members from distinguished mathematicians who are not normally resident within the United Kingdom.