International Congress of Mathematicians

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).

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/

List of Congresses

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

Year City Country
2026 Philadelphia United States United States
2022HelsinkiOnline event[note 1]
2018Rio de JaneiroBrazil Brazil
2014SeoulSouth Korea South Korea
2010HyderabadIndia India
2006MadridSpain Spain
2002BeijingChina China
1998BerlinGermany Germany
1994ZürichSwitzerland Switzerland
1990KyotoJapan Japan
1986BerkeleyUnited States United States
1982 (met during 1983)WarsawPoland Poland
1978HelsinkiFinland Finland
1974VancouverCanada Canada
1970NiceFrance France
1966MoscowSoviet Union Soviet Union
1962StockholmSweden Sweden
1958EdinburghUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
1954AmsterdamNetherlands Netherlands
1950Cambridge, MassachusettsUnited States United States
1936OsloNorway Norway
1932ZürichSwitzerland Switzerland
1928BolognaItaly Italy
1924TorontoCanada Canada
1920StrasbourgFrance France
1912CambridgeUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
1908RomeItaly Italy
1904HeidelbergGerman Empire German Empire
1900ParisFrance France
1897ZürichSwitzerland 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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