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22-477: The Global Digital Mathematics Library ( GDML ) was a project organized under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) to establish a digital library focused on mathematics , following on to the idea of a World Digital Mathematical Library proposed to the International Mathematical Union in 2006. The GDML was discussed by panels at

44-700: A report in 2008, Mathematics in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities , on the current state of mathematics in Africa and on opportunities for new initiatives to support mathematical development. In 2014, the IMU's Commission for Developing Countries CDC released an update of the report. Additionally, reports about Mathematics in Latin America and the Caribbean and South East Asia . were published. In July 2014 IMU released

66-652: Is an Argentine-American mathematician and Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago . He is known for his work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations . He was President of the International Mathematical Union between 2019 and 2022. Kenig obtained his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1978 under the supervision of Alberto Calderón . Since then, he has held positions at Princeton University and

88-621: Is concerned with issues related to women in mathematics worldwide. It organizes the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics ( ( W M ) 2 ) {\textstyle ((\mathrm {WM} )^{2})} as a satellite event of ICM. The International Commission on the History of Mathematics (ICHM) is operated jointly by the IMU and the Division of the History of Science (DHS) of

110-522: Is organized similarly to IMU with its own Executive Committee and General Assembly. Developing countries are a high priority for the IMU and a significant percentage of its budget, including grants received from individuals, mathematical societies, foundations, and funding agencies, is spent on activities for developing countries. Since 2011 this has been coordinated by the Commission for Developing Countries (CDC). The Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM)

132-409: Is represented through an Adhering Organization, which may be its principal academy, a mathematical society, its research council or some other institution or association of institutions, or an appropriate agency of its government. A country starting to develop its mathematical culture and interested in building links with mathematicians all over the world is invited to join IMU as an Associate Member. For

154-558: The International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS). The Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC) advises IMU on matters concerning mathematical information, communication, and publishing. The scientific prizes awarded by the IMU, in the quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), are deemed to be some of the highest distinctions in the mathematical world. These are: The IMU's members are Member Countries and each Member country

176-587: The University of Minnesota before returning to the University of Chicago in 1985. He has done extensive work in elliptic and dispersive partial differential equations. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2014. His students include Zhongwei Shen , Kin Ming Hui , Gigliola Staffilani and Panagiota Daskalopoulos . Kenig was elected President of the International Mathematical Union in July 2018,

198-713: The 2014 and 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians , and produced a white paper. Successor projects, the International Mathematical Knowledge Trust and European Knowledge Infrastructure for Mathematics, were initiated in 2016. References [ edit ] ^ Elizarov, Alexander M.; Lipachev, Evgeny K. (2020), "Digital Libraries and the Common Digital Space of Mathematical Knowledge" (PDF) , in Elizarov, Alexander M.; Kalenov, Nikolay; Sotnikov, Alexander N. (eds.), Proceedings of

220-473: The GA, including the election of the officers, establishment of commissions, the approval of the budget, and any changes to the statutes and by-laws. The IMU has 83 (full) Member countries and two Associate Members ( Bangladesh and Paraguay , marked below by light grey background). The IMU has five affiliate members: The International Mathematical Union is administered by an executive committee (EC) which conducts

242-619: The IMU, which was opened on January 1, 2011, and is hosted by the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), an institute of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community , with about 120 scientists engaging in mathematical research applied to complex problems in industry and commerce. IMU has a close relationship to mathematics education through its International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI). This commission

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264-950: The Initiative", in Greuel, Gert{-}Martin; Koch, Thorsten; Paule, Peter; Sommese, Andrew J. (eds.), Mathematical Software - ICMS 2016 - 5th International Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 11-14, 2016, Proceedings , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9725, Springer, pp. 443–446, doi : 10.1007/978-3-319-42432-3_56 See also [ edit ] Mathematical knowledge management Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Global_Digital_Mathematics_Library&oldid=1250897272 " Categories : Projects established in 2014 Digital library projects Mathematical projects Discipline-oriented digital libraries International Mathematical Union International Mathematical Union The objectives of

286-999: The International Conference "Common Digital Space of Scientific Knowledge: Problems & Solutions" (CDSSK 2020), Moscow, Russia, November 10-12, 2020 , CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2990, CEUR-WS.org, pp. 25–38 ^ Ion, Patrick D. F.; Watt, Stephen M. (2017), "The Global Digital Mathematics Library and the International Mathematical Knowledge Trust", in Geuvers, Herman; England, Matthew; Hasan, Osman; Rabe, Florian; Teschke, Olaf (eds.), Intelligent Computer Mathematics - 10th International Conference, CICM 2017, Edinburgh, UK, July 17-21, 2017, Proceedings , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10383, Springer, pp. 56–69, doi : 10.1007/978-3-319-62075-6_5 ^ Buchberger, Bruno (2016), "The GDML and EuKIM Projects: Short Report on

308-578: The International Mathematical Union are: promoting international cooperation in mathematics, supporting and assisting the International Congress of Mathematicians and other international scientific meetings/conferences, acknowledging outstanding research contributions to mathematics through the awarding of scientific prizes, and encouraging and supporting other international mathematical activities, considered likely to contribute to

330-2633: The International Mathematical Union from 1952 to the present: 1952–1954: [REDACTED] Marshall Harvey Stone (vice: [REDACTED] Émile Borel , [REDACTED] Erich Kamke ) 1955–1958: [REDACTED] Heinz Hopf (vice: [REDACTED] Arnaud Denjoy , [REDACTED] W. V. D. Hodge ) 1959–1962: [REDACTED] Rolf Nevanlinna (vice: [REDACTED] Pavel Alexandrov , [REDACTED] Marston Morse ) 1963–1966: [REDACTED] Georges de Rham (vice: [REDACTED] Henri Cartan , [REDACTED] Kazimierz Kuratowski ) 1967–1970: [REDACTED] Henri Cartan (vice: [REDACTED] Mikhail Lavrentyev , [REDACTED] Deane Montgomery ) 1971–1974: [REDACTED] K. S. Chandrasekharan (vice: [REDACTED] Abraham Adrian Albert , [REDACTED] Lev Pontryagin ) 1975–1978: [REDACTED] Deane Montgomery (vice: [REDACTED] J. W. S. Cassels , [REDACTED] Miron Nicolescu , [REDACTED] Gheorghe Vrânceanu ) 1979–1982: [REDACTED] Lennart Carleson (vice: [REDACTED] Masayoshi Nagata , [REDACTED] Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov ) 1983–1986: [REDACTED] Jürgen Moser (vice: [REDACTED] Ludvig Faddeev , [REDACTED] Jean-Pierre Serre ) 1987–1990: [REDACTED] Ludvig Faddeev (vice: [REDACTED] Walter Feit , [REDACTED] Lars Hörmander ) 1991–1994: [REDACTED] Jacques-Louis Lions (vice: [REDACTED] John H. Coates , [REDACTED] David Mumford ) 1995–1998: [REDACTED] David Mumford (vice: [REDACTED] Vladimir Arnold , [REDACTED] Albrecht Dold ) 1999–2002: [REDACTED] Jacob Palis (vice: [REDACTED] Simon Donaldson , [REDACTED] Shigefumi Mori ) 2003–2006: [REDACTED] John M. Ball (vice: [REDACTED] Jean-Michel Bismut , [REDACTED] Masaki Kashiwara ) 2007–2010: [REDACTED] László Lovász (vice: [REDACTED] Zhi-Ming Ma , [REDACTED] Claudio Procesi ) 2011–2014: [REDACTED] Ingrid Daubechies (vice: [REDACTED] Christiane Rousseau , [REDACTED] Marcelo Viana ) 2015–2018: [REDACTED] Shigefumi Mori (vice: [REDACTED] Alicia Dickenstein , [REDACTED] Vaughan Jones ) 2019–2022: [REDACTED] Carlos Kenig (vice: [REDACTED] Nalini Joshi , [REDACTED] Loyiso Nongxa ) 2023–2026: [REDACTED] Hiraku Nakajima (vice: [REDACTED] Ulrike Tillmann , [REDACTED] Tatiana Toro ) Carlos Kenig Carlos Eduardo Kenig (born November 25, 1953)

352-723: The business of the Union. The EC consists of the President, two vice-presidents, the Secretary, six Members-at-Large, all elected for a term of four years, and the Past President. The EC is responsible for all policy matters and for tasks, such as choosing the members of the ICM Program Committee and various prize committees. Every two months IMU publishes an electronic newsletter, IMU-Net , that aims to improve communication between IMU and

374-729: The development of mathematical science in any of its aspects, whether pure, applied, or educational. The IMU was established in 1920, but dissolved in September 1932 and reestablished in 1950 at the Constitutive Convention in New York, de jure on September 10, 1951, when ten countries had become members. The last milestone was the General Assembly in March 1952, in Rome, Italy where the activities of

396-630: The new IMU were inaugurated and the first Executive Committee, President and various commissions were elected. In 1952 the IMU was also readmitted to the ICSU. The past president of the Union is Carlos Kenig (2019–2022). The current president is Hiraku Nakajima . At the 16th meeting of the IMU General Assembly in Bangalore, India , in August 2010, Berlin was chosen as the location of the permanent office of

418-665: The promotion of mathematics in developing countries in the early 1970s and has, since then supported various activities. In 2010 IMU formed the Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) which brings together all of the past and current initiatives in support of mathematics and mathematicians in the developing world. Some IMU Supported Initiatives: IMU also supports the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) with its programmes, exhibits and workshops in emerging countries, especially in Asia and Africa. IMU released

440-502: The purpose of facilitating jointly sponsored activities and jointly pursuing the objectives of the IMU, multinational mathematical societies and professional societies can join IMU as an Affiliate Member. Every four years, the IMU membership gathers in a General Assembly (GA), which consists of delegates appointed by the Adhering Organizations, together with the members of the executive committee. All important decisions are made at

462-751: The report: The International Mathematical Union in the Developing World: Past, Present and Future (July 2014). In 2014, the IMU held a day-long symposium prior to the opening of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), entitled Mathematics in Emerging Nations: Achievements and Opportunities (MENAO). Approximately 260 participants from around the world, including representatives of embassies, scientific institutions, private business and foundations attended this session. Attendees heard inspiring stories of individual mathematicians and specific developing nations. List of presidents of

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484-444: The worldwide mathematical community by reporting on decisions and recommendations of the Union, major international mathematical events and developments, and on other topics of general mathematical interest. IMU Bulletins are published annually with the aim to inform IMU's members about the Union's current activities. In 2009 IMU published the document Best Current Practices for Journals . The IMU took its first organized steps towards

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