Previous ICMs

The IMU supports and assists the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM).

The first ICM was held in 1897, since 1900 ICMs take place every four years. It was in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris that David Hilbert presented his 23 famous problems.

Previous ICMs have been held in

• Zürich (1897)
• Paris (1900)
• Heidelberg (1904)
• Roma (1908)
• Cambridge, U.K. (1912)
• Strasbourg (1920)
• Toronto (1924)
• Bologna (1928)
• Zürich (1932)
• Oslo (1936)
• Cambridge, USA (1950)
• Amsterdam (1954)
• Edinburgh (1958)
• Stockholm (1962)
• Moskva (1966)
• Nice (1970)
• Vancouver (1974)
• Helsinki (1978)
• Warszawa (1982, held in 1983)
• Berkeley (1986)
• Kyoto (1990)
• Zürich (1994)
• Berlin (1998)
• Beijing (2002), (see also here)
• Madrid (2006)

Guillermo P. Curbera (Universidad de Sevilla), who curated the exhibition on the history of the International Congresses at ICM 2006 in Madrid, has made parts of the exhibition electronically available.