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5 unusual facts about International Congress of Mathematicians


Léon Motchane

He attended the International Congress of Mathematicians in August 1966 held in Moscow and accepted Alexander Grothendieck's Fields Medal on his behalf as Grothendieck boycotted the Congress to protest over the treatment of the dissident writers.

Ludwik Silberstein

At the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1912 at Cambridge, Silberstein spoke on "Some applications of quaternions".

Peter Roquette

In 1958 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Edinburgh (on the topic of Some fundamental theorems on abelian function fields).

Universal algebra

Tarski's lecture at the 1950 International Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge ushered in a new period in which model-theoretic aspects were developed, mainly by Tarski himself, as well as C.C. Chang, Leon Henkin, Bjarni Jónsson, Roger Lyndon, and others.

William Messing

In his thesis, Messing elaborated on Grothendieck's 1970 lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice on p-divisible groups (Barsotti–Tate groups) that are important in algebraic geometry in prime characteristic, which were introduced in the 1950s by Dieudonné in his study of Lie algebras over fields of finite characteristic.


Fields Medal Symposium

The Fields Medal Symposium is an annual event that will honour one of the Fields Medal recipients from the most recent International Congress of Mathematicians.

Gheorghe Țițeica

He was the president of the geometry section at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto (1924), Zürich (1932), and Oslo (1936).

Manifold Destiny

On August 22, 2006, Sir John M. Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, made reference to the article and rushed publication of the Cao/Zhu paper at a speech given at the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Masamichi Takesaki

In 1970, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice; his talk was about one parameter automorphism groups and states of operator algebras.

Minkowski problem

Shing-Tung Yau received the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw in 1982 for his work in global differential geometry and elliptic partial differential equations, particularly for solving such difficult problems as the Calabi conjecture of 1954, and a problem of Hermann Minkowski in Euclidean spaces concerning the Dirichlet problem for the real Monge–Ampère equation.

Nick Katz

In 1978 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki (p-adic L functions, Serre-Tate local moduli and ratios of solutions of differential equations) and 1970 in Nice (The regularity theorem in algebraic geometry).

Tosio Kato

In 1970, he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Nice (scattering theory and perturbation of continuous spectra).


see also

János Kollár

He was also selected as a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians to be held in 2014 in Seoul.

Salvatore Pincherle

In 1924, he attended the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, Canada.