![]() ![]() This is accompanied by a wealth of partly new pictorial material of good quality. The book proceeds chronologically, describing each congress on the basis of the published Proceedings, usually citing the titles of the plenary lectures, commenting on the number and the national distribution of participants, and on the financial conditions. with the help of many colleagues abroad, new and interesting material on the Oslo congress of 1936 and on the origins of the Fields medals in mathematics, which were awarded for the first time in Oslo. Recommended academic collections, upper-division undergraduate and above.Ĭurbero found. A niche book, likely to be of interest to both mathematicians and historians of science. Mathematicians of the World, Unite! is much more detailed, more probing, and (of course) more current. Van Kerkhove, Mathematical Reviews, December 2009 This well-written and beautifully edited book gives a survey of all 25 ICM's, from 1897 in Zurich to 2006 in Madrid. ―Dharma Lesmono, Australian Mathematical Society, March 2010 This is an excellent book, and the author is to be congratulated on his efforts in collecting references from many sources (congress proceedings, books, articles, notes and announcements in journals), especially old sources from the early times of the ICMs. ―Brenda Strassfield, Mathematics Teacher, May 2010 the author's description of whets one's appetite to attend ICM 2010 in India. The history of the prized Fields Medal and its founder is quite compelling. ![]()
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