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Todays International Mathematical Union (IMU) derives its greatest visibility among mathematicians world wide from the International Congresses. Its very foundation was an integral part of the mounting of the first postwar ICM at Harvard in 1950. It is via the experience of the quadrennial ICMs and the published traces they leave behind that an image of mathematics continues to be framed and projected for the mathematical community at large, and for the whole world to see. In this final chapter we present a data-based study of how the most exquisite layer of this image has evolved over the past seventy years.
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Schappacher, N. (2022). Framing Mathematical Excellence. In: Framing Global Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95683-7_10
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