International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
Georg Cantor (1845–1918)
The 1932 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich, Switzerland
The Soviet commemorative stamp for the 1966 Congress in Moscow
The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award honours the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields.
The obverse of the Fields Medal
The reverse of the medal
The reverse of the Fields Medal