``Untiring labor overcomes all!'' The history of the Dutch Mathematical Society in comparison to its various counterparts in Europe (Q5936222)

This paper points out the Dutch social climate around 1800, which stimulated the emergence of five amateur mathematical societies.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEOne of them, the Amsterdam Mathematical Society (known as Wiskundig Genootschap) became a national institution. Outside The Netherlands amateur societies either disappeared or were not involved with their professional counterparts. An appendix gives a list of european mathematical societies founded before 1950.