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http://dx.doi.org/10.14477/jhm.2013.26.1.021

The Rebirth of the IMU and ICM  

Kim, Daniel G. (Department of Mathematics, Southern Oregon University)
Kim, Sung Sook (Department of Applied Mathematics, Paichai University)
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Journal for History of Mathematics / v.26, no.1, 2013 , pp. 21-32 More about this Journal
Abstract
The outbreak of the First and the Second World Wars cast great shadow across the Europe including mathematical society. The IMU led by French mathematicians after the First World War ceased to exist because it was used politically. As Europe ran into the Second World War, all the international mathematical activities were ceased. Prominent mathematicians were put into camp by Nazi or moved to the United States of America. After the war, European mathematicians did not have capacity to represent the international mathematical society anymore. This led Stone and other American mathematicians to form the new IMU, which was independent of political ideology. This paper studies the birth process of the new IMU after the War and some major events that happened to ICM in 1950s.
Keywords
IRC(International Research Council); IMU(International Mathematical Union); ICM(International Congress of Mathematicians); history of ICM; mathematics education;
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