Proceedings of the International Mathematical Congress held in Toronto, August 11-16, 1924

Abstract

Two stately volumes commemorate the meeting of the International Mathematical Congress at Toronto on Aug. 11-16, 1924. Although the receding shadow of the War caused some notable absences, yet thirty-three nations, some of them newly born, from all parts of the earth, sent some 450 mathematicians, who made 249 communications varying over the whole field of mathematical endeavour. Six sections were the basis of the classification, four covering the ordinary range of pure and applied mathematics, and the fifth and sixth devoted to statistics, actuarial science, economics, history, philosophy, and didactics. For myself, I presided at one sitting of one of the sections, and felt strongly the truth of the description (by a distinguished scientific worker) of all such congresses, that they resembled, both in extent of subjects and diversity of tongues, the last stage of the Tower of Babel.

Proceedings of the International Mathematical Congress held in Toronto, August 11–16, 1924.

Edited By Prof. J. C. Fields, with the collaboration of an Editorial Committee. Vol. 1: Report of the Congress; Lectures; Communications to Sections I and II. Pp. 935. Vol. 2: Communications to Sections III, IV, V, and VI. Pp. 1006. (Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1928.) n.p.