International Congress of Mathematicians

International Congress of Mathematicians
StatusActive
GenreMathematics conference
FrequencyQuadrennial
Years active1897–present
InauguratedAugust 1897 (1897-08)
FounderFelix Klein & Georg Cantor
Website
www.mathunion.org/activities/icm/

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for mathematics.[1][2][3] It meets once every four years. The organizer is the International Mathematical Union (IMU).

List of Congresses

Prior to the 1897 Congress, it came the International Mathematical Congress.

Year City Country
2026 Philadelphia United States
2022 Helsinki Online event[note 1]
2018 Rio de Janeiro Brazil
2014 Seoul South Korea
2010 Hyderabad India
2006 Madrid Spain
2002 Beijing China
1998 Berlin Germany
1994 Zürich Switzerland
1990 Kyoto Japan
1986 Berkeley United States
1982 (met during 1983) Warsaw Poland
1978 Helsinki Finland
1974 Vancouver Canada
1970 Nice France
1966 Moscow Soviet Union
1962 Stockholm Sweden
1958 Edinburgh United Kingdom
1954 Amsterdam Netherlands
1950 Cambridge, Massachusetts United States
1936 Oslo Norway
1932 Zürich Switzerland
1928 Bologna Italy
1924 Toronto Canada
1920 Strasbourg France
1912 Cambridge United Kingdom
1908 Rome Italy
1904 Heidelberg German Empire
1900 Paris France
1897 Zürich Switzerland

Notes

  1. ↑ Originally planned to be in Saint Petersburg, Russia, but was moved online following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The IMU General Assembly took place in Helsinki, Finland, in early July, 2022. [4]

References

  1. ↑ G. Curbera. ICM through history. Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, no. 63, March 2007, pp. 16-21.
  2. ↑ Olli Lehto. Mathematics without borders: a history of the International Mathematical Union. Springer-Verlag, 1998. ISBN 0-387-98358-9.
  3. ↑ Guillermo Curbera. Mathematicians of the World, Unite!: The International Congress of Mathematicians: A Human Endeavor AK Peters, 2009. ISBN 1-56881-330-9.
  4. ↑ "Decision of the Executive Committee of the IMU on the upcoming ICM 2022 and IMU General Assembly" (PDF).

Further reading

  • Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Constance Reid. International Mathematical Congresses: An Illustrated History, 1893-1986, Springer-Verlag, 1986. ISBN 0-387-96409-6
  • Yousef Alavi, Peter Hilton and Jean Pedersen. "Let's Meet at the Congress" American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 93, No. 1 (Jan., 1986), pp. 3–8

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