The Fifth International Congress of Mathematicians

Abstract

THE International Congress of Mathematicians,. which meets in Cambridge on August 22, is the fifth of a series inaugurated at Zürich in 1897 and continued in Paris, 1900, Heidelberg, 1904, and Rome, 1908. The inviting body is the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and the project of receiving the fifth Congress at Cambridge has been well supported, not only by Cambridge men, resident and non-resident, but also by others, in Oxford and in the country generally, who are interested in the progress of mathematics.