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  title info:
    title: Mathematics without borders
    sub title: a history of the International Mathematical Union
  name:
    name part: Lehto, Olli.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 399 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: The history of international mathematical co-operation over the last hundred years - from the first international congress in 1897 to plans for the World Mathematical Year 2000 - is a surprisingly compelling story. For reflected in the history of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) is all the strife among world powers, as well as aspirations for co-operation among nations in an increasingly interdependent world. As early as the 1920s, the IMU embraced principles of political neutrality, inviting every national mathematical organisation to join, and this principle of non-discrimination, while sometimes sorely tried, has held the IMU in good stead. A number of issues - the Cold War, the conflict between the Peoples Republic of China and Taiwan, a divided Germany, problems in the emerging nations of Africa - at times led to attempts to influence the IMU Executive Committee in its decisions regarding membership, location of international congresses, committee assignments, handling of protests, and awarding the coveted Fields Medals. Yet throughout, the IMU has sponsored international congresses around the world, and Professor Lehtos gripping story is one of individuals, among them many of the great mathematicians of our century, united in the common purpose of advancing their science, told against the backdrop of world events.
  note: Olli Lehto.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-366) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: International Mathematical Union
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: International Mathematical Union.
  classification: QA1 .L42 1998
  classification: 510
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mathematics without borders
    name:
      name part: Lehto, Olli.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Springer, ©1998
    identifier: (DLC) 97037950
    identifier: (OCoLC)37573258
  identifier: 9781461206132 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1461206138 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0387983589 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 9780387983585 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: WAU
    record creation date: 120402
    record change date: 20260420211645.3
    record identifier: in00003550183
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng