Handbook of mathematical geosciences. Fifty years of IAMG / Справочник по математическим геонаукам. Пятьдесят лет IAMG.

The International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) was founded during the 23rd International Geological Congress in Prague, August 1968. Within the Earth Sciences, the IAMG has played a prominent role during the past 50 years by living up to its mandate to promote, worldwide, the advancement of mathematics, statistics, and informatics in the geosciences. Under its auspices there have been and continue to be important developments in applications of mathematics, statistics and computer science in the Earth Sciences. To give two examples: IAMG members Georges Matheron and Jean Serra developed geostatistics and mathematical morphology resulting in methods that are now widely applied in other branches of science and engineering; John Aitchison invented methods to circumvent the problem of spurious correlations that often arise in compositional data analysis of petrological and geochemical data. IAMG members later followed up on developing this topic now used in other fields of science and in the social sciences as well. During the first 30 years of its existence, IAMG stood as the abbreviation of International Association for Mathematical Geology, but its current name was adopted to widen its scope and provide a home to scientists who are not only geologists but who perform research in other fields of science and engineering. From the beginning, prominent mathematical statisticians including John Tukey, Geoffrey Watson, and Franklin Graybill played a prominent part within the IAMG by providing advice and collaborating in research projects. <...>