EAN: 9781461268406

MATHEMATICS WITHOUT BORDERS - OLLI LEHTO KARTON...

At its meeting in April 1990 at the University of Cambridge  the Executive Committee of the
International Mathematical Union (IMU) decided that the largely unorganized archives of the
Union should be properly arranged and catalogued. Simultaneously  the Executive Committee
expressed the wish that a history of the Union should be written [1). As Secretary of the Union
I had proposed that these issues be dis cussed at the Cambridge meeting  but without having had
in mind any personal role in the practical execution of such projects. At that time  the papers
of the IMU were stored in Zurich  at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule  and I saw no
reason why they could not remain there. At about this time  Professor K. Chandrasekharan
produced a handwritten article titled The Prehistory of the International Mathematical Union
[2)  and it seemed to me that this might serve as the beginning of a more compre hensive
history. I had first thought that Tuulikki MakeUiinen  who during eight years as the Office
Secretary ofthe IMU had become well acquainted with the Union  would do the arranging of the
archives in Zurich. She had a preliminary look at the material there  but it soon became clear
that the amount of work required to bring order to it was too great to be accomplished in a few
short visits from Helsinki. The total volume of material was formidable.

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