The work of the Mathematical Institute is devoted to basic research in mathematics, the relationship of mathematical disciplines to other fields of science and to applications. The Institute is concerned mainly with mathematical analysis (differential equations, numerical analysis, functional analysis, theory of functions, mathematical physics), probability theory and mathematical statistics, mathematical logic, theoretical computer science and graph theory, numerical algebra, topology (general and algebraic) and theory of teaching mathematics. The Institute was established in 1947 as the Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of the Sciences and Arts. In 1950 it was reorganized to form the Central Mathematical Institute, which was incorporated into the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1953 as the Mathematical Institute. Since 1993 the Institute is a part of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.