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Key facts
- Legal status
- unincorporated association, recognized as a charitable organization by the internal revenue service of Berlin, Germany
- Purpose
- Promoting International Cooperation in Mathematics
- Location
- IMU Secretariat, Hausvogteiplatz 11A, D-10117 Berlin , Germany
- President
- Hiraku Nakajima
- Parent organization
- International Science Council
- Website
- mathunion.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1920
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Also known as
- IMU
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.428580.3 · ISNI 0000 0004 5907 2797
Wikidata facts
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Country
- Germany
- Headquarters
- Weierstrass Institute
- Chairperson
- Hiraku Nakajima
- Official website
- www.mathunion.org
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- inception
- 1951-09-10
- member of
- International Science Council
- topic's main category
- Category:International Mathematical Union
- grants
- Chern Medal
- short name
- UMI
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1932-00-00
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world. It is a member of the International Science Council (ISC) and supports the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). Its members are national mathematics organizations from more than 80 countries.
The objectives of 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 the development of mathematical science in any of its aspects, whether pure, applied, or educational.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “International Mathematical Union” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.