Notas biográficas

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze is a German-born professor emeritus for history of mathematics at the University of Agder in Kristiansand (Norway). He is working on the social and disciplinary history of mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries, among other things on a scientific biography of the pioneer of applied mathematics Richard von Mises.

In his talk he will report on his most recent book, co-authored with Christopher Hollings (Oxford), is Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War, Providence 2020. Until 2021 he has been co-editor in chief of Historia Mathematica.

Talk title: "Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War"

Abstract
The Oslo ICM of 1936 appears as a mathematical and political melting pot, standing between the academic fall-out of the First World War and the further disruptions of the Second. In the present volume, we describe the ways in which the political situation shaped the staging of the congress, and the consequences that this had for the development of mathematics in the 1930s. The congress itself provides us with a snapshot of the mathematics of that decade, made the more interesting by the fact that this was the first ICM at which the now well established Fields Medals were awarded.