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THE first Mathematical Congress was held at Zurich in 1897, the second at Paris in 1900, the third at Heidelberg in 1904, and the fourth at Rome in 1908. This year's congress met at Cambridge, August 21–28, under the presidency of Sir G. H. Darwin, and was divided into sections as follows:—I, Analysis; II, Geometry; III (a), Physical Mathematics; III (b), Statistics; IV (a), Philosophy and History; IV (b), Didactics. Several meetings of the last section were held in connection with the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics, which was formed by a resolution of the fourth congress to study and report on the actual state of mathematical teaching in various countries.
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The Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians at Cambridge. . Nature 90, 4–6 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090004a0
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