The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the Gauss Prize are awarded during the congress' opening ceremony. Each congress is memorialized by a printed learned Proceedings recording academic papers based on invited talks intended to be relevant to current topics of general interest.
During the 1900 congress in Paris, France, David Hilbert announced his famous list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems, now termed Hilbert's problems. During the 1912 congress in Cambridge, England, Edmund Landau listed four basic problems about prime numbers, now called Landau's problems. The 1924 congress in Toronto was organized by John Charles Fields, initiator of the Fields Medal; it included a roundtrip railroad excursion to Vancouver and ferry to Victoria.
The 1998 congress was attended by 3,346 participants. The American Mathematical Society reported that more than 4,500 partipants attended the 2006 conference. The King of Spain presided over the 2006 conference opening ceremony. The 2010 Congress is scheduled to meet in Hyderabad, India.
List of Congresses
| Year | City | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 (scheduled) | Hyderabad |  India |
| 2006 | Madrid |  Spain |
| 2002 | Beijing |  China |
| 1998 | Berlin |  Germany |
| 1994 | Zürich |  Switzerland |
| 1990 | Kyōto |  Japan |
| 1986 | Berkeley |  United States |
| 1982 (met during 1983) | Warsaw |  Poland |
| 1978 | Helsinki |  Finland |
| 1974 | Vancouver |  Canada |
| 1970 | Nice |  France |
| 1966 | Moscow |  Soviet Union |
| 1962 | Stockholm |  Sweden |
| 1958 | Edinburgh |  United Kingdom |
| 1954 | Amsterdam |  The Netherlands |
| 1950 | Cambridge | United States |
| 1936 | Oslo |  Norway |
| 1932 | Zürich | Switzerland |
| 1928 | Bologna |  Italy |
| 1924 | Toronto | Canada |
| 1920 | Strasbourg | France |
| 1912 | Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 1908 | Rome | Italy |
| 1904 | Heidelberg |  German Empire |
| 1900 | Paris | France |
| 1897 | Zürich | Switzerland |
External links
- International Mathematic Union's page on ICM
- ICM 1998 (Proceedings)
- ICM 2002 (Proceedings available on the arXiv)
- ICM 2006 (Proceedings)
- ICM 2010
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