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List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers

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This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers. Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this community, of an induction to a hall of fame." The current list of Plenary and Invited Speakers presented here is based on the ICM's post-WWII terminology, in which the one-hour speakers in the morning sessions are called "Plenary Speakers" and the other speakers (in the afternoon sessions) whose talks are included in the ICM published proceedings are called "Invited Speakers". In the pre-WW II congresses the Plenary Speakers were called "Invited Speakers".

Overview During the 1900 Congress in Paris, France, David Hilbert announced his famous list of Hilbert's problems. At the 1954 Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam, Richard Brauer announced his program for the classification of finite simple groups. Alexander Grothendieck in his plenary lecture at the 1958 Congress outlined his programme "to create arithmetic geometry via a (new) reformulation of algebraic geometry, seeking maximal generality." At the 1962 Congress in Stockholm Kiyosi Itô lectured on how to combine differential geometry and stochastic analysis, and this led to major advances in the 60s and 70s.

Speakers

1897, Zürich

1900, Paris

1904, Heidelberg

1908, Rome

1912, Cambridge (UK)

1920, Strasbourg

1924, Toronto

1928, Bologna

1932, Zürich

1936, Oslo

1950, Cambridge (USA)

1954, Amsterdam

1958, Edinburgh

1962, Stockholm

1966, Moscow

1970, Nice

1974, Vancouver

1978, Helsinki

1983, Warsaw

1986, Berkeley

1990, Kyoto

1994, Zürich

1998, Berlin

2002, Beijing

2006, Madrid

2010, Hyderabad

2014, Seoul

2018, Rio de Janeiro

2022, virtual

Most invited This list inventories the mathematicians who were the most invited to speak to an ICM.

References

See also Plenary Speakers (in Russian), contribution titles, and URLs International Mathematical Union: Proceedings 1893-2022

External links "International Mathematical Union (IMU)". mathunion.org. Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2015-09-06. "ICM Main invited speakers". www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-06.

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