List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers

Last updated February 10, 2024

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."^[1] The current list of Plenary and Invited Speakers presented here is based on the ICM's post-WW II 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".

By congress year

1900, Paris

During the 1900 Congress in Paris, France, David Hilbert (pictured) announced his famous list of Hilbert's problems.^[2]

1904, Heidelberg

1908, Rome

Tullio Levi-Civita Levi-civita.jpg — Tullio Levi-Civita

1912, Cambridge (UK)

G. H. Hardy Ghhardy@72.jpg — G. H. Hardy

1920, Strasbourg

1924, Toronto

1928, Bologna

1932, Zürich

1936, Oslo

Oswald Veblen OswaldVeblen1915.jpg — Oswald Veblen

1950, Cambridge (USA)

1954, Amsterdam

At the 1954 Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam, Richard Brauer announced his program for the classification of finite simple groups.^[5]

1958, Edinburgh

Alexander Grothendieck (pictured) 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."^[6]

1962, Stockholm

At the 1962 Congress in Stockholm Kiyosi Itô (pictured) lectured on how to combine differential geometry and stochastic analysis, and this led to major advances in the 60s and 70s.^[7]

1966, Moscow

Lennart Carleson Carleson cropped.jpg — Lennart Carleson

There were thirty-one Invited Addresses (eight in Abstract) at the 1966 congress.^[8]

1970, Nice

Pierre Deligne Deligne.jpg — Pierre Deligne

1974, Vancouver

1978, Helsinki

Robert Langlands Langlands2.jpg — Robert Langlands

1983, Warsaw

Efim Zelmanov EfimIZelmanov.jpg — Efim Zelmanov

1986, Berkeley

1990, Kyoto

Shigefumi Mori Shigefumi Mori.jpg — Shigefumi Mori

1994, Zürich

Maxim Kontsevich MaximKontsevich.jpg — Maxim Kontsevich

1998, Berlin

Vladimir Voevodsky VladimirVoevodsky.jpg — Vladimir Voevodsky

2002, Beijing

2006, Madrid

2010, Hyderabad

Maryam Mirzakhani Maryam Mirzakhani in Seoul 2014.jpg — Maryam Mirzakhani

2014, Seoul

Manjul Bhargava Manjul Bhargava.jpg — Manjul Bhargava

2018, Rio de Janeiro

2022, Virtual

Most invited

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

Rank	Name	#	Years	Nationality
1	Jacques Hadamard	9	1897, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1928, 1932, 1950	France
2	Émile Borel	7	1897, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1928, 1936	France
2	Jules Drach	7	1900, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936	France
4	Elie Cartan	6	1900, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936	France
4	Gino Loria	6	1897, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1928, 1932	Italy
4	Vito Volterra	6	1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1928	Italy
7	Henri Fehr	5	1904, 1908, 1912, 1924, 1932	Switzerland
7	Rudolf Fueter	5	1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936	Switzerland
7	Yuri Manin	5	1966, 1970, 1978, 1986, 1990	Russia Germany
7	Mihailo Petrović	5	1908, 1912, 1924, 1928, 1932	Serbia
7	Cyparissos Stephanos	5	1897, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912	Greece
7	Carl Størmer	5	1908, 1920, 1924, 1932, 1936	Norway
7	Gheorghe Țițeica	5	1908, 1912, 1924, 1932, 1936	Romania
7	Stanisław Zaremba	5	1908, 1920, 1924, 1932, 1936	Poland

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References

↑ Castelvecchi, Davide (7 October 2015). "The biggest mystery in mathematics: Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof". Nature. 526 (7572): 178–181. Bibcode:2015Natur.526..178C. doi: 10.1038/526178a . PMID 26450038.
↑ Scott, Charlotte Angas (1900). "The International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 7 (2): 57–79. doi: 10.1090/s0002-9904-1900-00768-3 .
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Richardson, R. G. D. (1932). "International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich, 1932". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (11): 769–774. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9904-1932-05491-X .
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Morse, Marston. "The international Congress in Oslo." Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 42, no. 11 (1936): 777–781. doi : 10.1090/S0002-9904-1936-06421-9
↑ Carl B. Boyer; Uta C. Merzbach (25 January 2011). A History of Mathematics (PDF). John Wiley & Sons. p. 592. ISBN 978-0-470-63056-3.
↑ Cartier, Pierre (2004), "Un pays dont on ne connaîtrait que le nom (Grothendieck et les " motifs ")" (PDF), in Cartier, Pierre; Charraud, Nathalie (eds.), Réel en mathématiques-psychanalyse et mathématiques (in French), Editions Agalma, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29, English translation: A country of which nothing is known but the name: Grothendieck and "motives".
↑ Jean-Paul Pier (September 2000). Development of Mathematics 1950-2000. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 437. ISBN 978-3-7643-6280-5.
↑ Thirty-one Invited Address (eight in Abstract) at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow, 1966. American Mathematical Society Translations - Series 2. American Mathematical Society. 1968.

See also

Plenary Speakers (in Russian), contribution titles, and URLs
International Mathematical Union: Proceedings 1893-2014

External links

"International Mathematical Union (IMU)". mathunion.org. Retrieved 2015-09-06.
"ICM Main invited speakers". www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-06.

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[1] Castelvecchi, Davide (7 October 2015). "The biggest mystery in mathematics: Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof". Nature. 526 (7572): 178–181. Bibcode:2015Natur.526..178C. doi: 10.1038/526178a . PMID 26450038.

[2] Scott, Charlotte Angas (1900). "The International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 7 (2): 57–79. doi: 10.1090/s0002-9904-1900-00768-3 .

[Inv1934-3] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Richardson, R. G. D. (1932). "International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich, 1932". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (11): 769–774. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9904-1932-05491-X .

[Inv-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Morse, Marston. "The international Congress in Oslo." Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 42, no. 11 (1936): 777–781. doi : 10.1090/S0002-9904-1936-06421-9

[BoyerMerzbach2011-5] Carl B. Boyer; Uta C. Merzbach (25 January 2011). A History of Mathematics (PDF). John Wiley & Sons. p. 592. ISBN 978-0-470-63056-3.

[6] Cartier, Pierre (2004), "Un pays dont on ne connaîtrait que le nom (Grothendieck et les " motifs ")" (PDF), in Cartier, Pierre; Charraud, Nathalie (eds.), Réel en mathématiques-psychanalyse et mathématiques (in French), Editions Agalma, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29, English translation: A country of which nothing is known but the name: Grothendieck and "motives".

[Pier2000-7] Jean-Paul Pier (September 2000). Development of Mathematics 1950-2000. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 437. ISBN 978-3-7643-6280-5.

[8] Thirty-one Invited Address (eight in Abstract) at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow, 1966. American Mathematical Society Translations - Series 2. American Mathematical Society. 1968.

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