ICM2018

It was a pleasure having you around in the first Southern Hemisphere ICM!
 There were 9 days of knowledge, exchanges and the passion for Mathematics shared by each participant. Thank you for following us on social medias! See you in St. Petersburg, at the ICM 2022!

Characters of the ICM | Tadashi Tokieda: The art of playing with Mathematics A professor of mathematics at @Stanford, Tadashi Tokieda began his career as a classical painter and philologist, but was captivated by Mathematics ► bit.ly/2UwoAdj

Time Tunnel… Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791, in London, England. He is recognized as the pioneer of computing for having designed the first computer of general use, known as analytical machine, using only mechanical parts.

Characters of the ICM | Ingrid Daubechies: In Art and Mathematics The Belgian Ingrid Daubechies is graduated in physics and mathematics. She is recognized in the academia for her very important work with wavelets in image compression ► bit.ly/2B3ebg8

Time Tunnel... | On December 19, 1908, the magazine Scientific American made an announcement offering a US$ 500 prize to the person who could give “a simple explanation of the fourth dimension” ► bit.ly/2RTIduk

Made in Russia | Mathematicians around the world know the ICM brand, but it only became popular in 1966, at the Congress held in Moscow. The event decided to make the acronym quite visible in all possible places ► bit.ly/2B4RqbJ

Characters of the ICM | Catherine Goldstein: Diving in the History of Mathematics A specialist in number theory and the history of mathematics, Catherine Goldstein says there is no easy formula to understand the history of mathematics ► bit.ly/2B9ku1Z

Time Tunnel... | In order to “break the ice” in his inaugural lecture on December 12, 1885, as a Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University, JJ Sylvester decided to present the students with the reading of his sonnet ► bit.ly/2SFsMpd

Characters of the ICM: Ronald Coifman: Harmony between Mathematics and Computing The mathematician Ronald Coifman, a specialist in pure and applied harmonic analysis, is also a computer scientist ► bit.ly/2E7GDAY

Time tunnel... | On December 5, 1825, the Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel wrote to his German colleague August Crelle to say how pleased he was that he was starting a new mathematics journal - Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik ► bit.ly/2EfxuXI

There was a World Cup in in the way | After the IMU General Assembly in 1986 hit the hammer in choosing Japan as ICM's seat in 1990, the local committee decided that it was time to encourage Germany to run for the event in 1994 ► bit.ly/2SqpbLG

Rahul Pandharipande | Geometry on all sides Indo-American mathematician Rahul Pandharipande’s taste for science came from the cradle. A son of the renowned theoretical physicist, he is an algebraic geometry specialist. Watch his lecture: youtube.com/watch?v=LbNQHE2s…

Time tunnel... | The idea of creating the Royal Society of London came up on November 28, 1660 ► bit.ly/2RlfPRo

Characters of the ICM | Sylvia Serfaty : Deciphering superconductivity The French mathematician Sylvia Serfaty has been consistently rewarded for her contributions to the Ginzburg-Landau theory. Check out the video of Serfaty’s plenary lecture: bit.ly/2DNezTQ

Time Tunnel... On November 21, 1811, Carl Friedrich Gauss made a poetic observation to his fellow mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel: “One should never forget that the functions, like all mathematical constructions, are only our own creations.”

The numbers controversy | In the aftermath of World War I, the wounds in Europe were still open and mathematicians from the central powers were vetoed by the Allied powers and could not take part in the ICMs of Strasbourg (1920) and Toronto (1924) ► bit.ly/2KfChsk

Characters of the ICM | Carlos Gustavo Moreira : From the Olympics to the ICM The only Brazilian to present an ICM 2018 plenary lecture in Rio de Janeiro, Carlos Gustavo “Gugu” Moreira is a specialist in dynamic systems. Watch his lecture ► goo.gl/7MGLeM #ICM2018Rio

Time Tunnel... The German mathematician Gottfried W. Leibniz died on November 14, 1716, in Hanover (Germany). One of the parents of the modern calculus along with Newton, he died lonely and forgotten. His funeral service was joined only by his secretary. #ICM2018 #Math #Leibniz