Titlebook: International Mathematical Congresses; An Illustrated Histo D. Albers,G. Alexanderson,Constance Reid Book 19861st edition Springer Science+

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Chicago 1893,philosophical congresses was scheduled, among them a “world congress” of mathematicians and astronomers. Felix Klein of G?ttingen brought a number of contributions from European mathematicians and opened the Congress with a brief address on “The Present State of Mathematics,” in which he emphasized

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Paris 1900,n congresses, since it had already been decided that the Second International Congress of Mathematicians would be held in Paris in 1900 to coincide with that city’s . and the end of the nineteenth century. A thousand mathematicians had indicated that they would attend; but for a multiplicity of reas

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Rome 1908,cording to Henri Fehr, Geneva—by this time an inveterate attender of the congresses—it seemed that the attractions of Rome itself diverted the members of the Congress from the presentations being made at the Palazzo Corsini, not so centrally located for sightseeing as it might have been.

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Strasbourg 1920,e”) met in Brussels to consider a series of post-war scientific congresses. The mathematicians present were not sufficiently numerous nor sufficiently accredited to form the proposed International Mathematical Union, but they decided to elect Charles de la Vallée-Poussin, Louvain, as their chairman

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Zurich 1932, the traditionally neutral soil of Switzerland. According to the report in the published proceedings, Oswald Veblen, Princeton, the Chairman of the Delegation of the United States, “expressed the gratitude which all mathematicians must feel to Professors Fueter and Speiser for the generous way in wh

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Amsterdam 1954,hered in the world famous Concertgebouw of Amsterdam during the first week of September 1954. “. . . To symbolize the tenuous continuity . . ., the President of the old Congress emerges for a moment from the obscurity in which he belongs, to propose the name of the person selected by the hosts of th

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Edinburgh 1958, that the Congress would be presided over by Sir Edmund Whittaker, “that great figure in the life of the City and University of Edinburgh, so much respected and loved in the mathematical world.” Whittaker, however, had died in 1956; and W. V. D. Hodge, Cambridge, regretfully took his place.

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