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    The International Congress of Mathematics, also called the International Congress of

    Mathematics, is the most influential and largest congress of leading mathematicians in the world.
    The congress meets every 4 years under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union
    (IMU). Immediately before each congress the Assembly of the International Mathematical Union
    meets to decide organizational matters. The contents of the papers and discussions are published
    in the Congress Proceedings.
    At the opening ceremony the names of the four mathematics prizewinners are announced:
    The Fields Prize, awarded since 1936.
    The Nevanlinna Prize, from 1982 to 2018, later renamed the IMU Abacus medal.
    Gauss Prize, since 2006.
    Cern Prize, since 2010.
    In addition, the Lilavati Prize for the Popularisation of Mathematics has been awarded at the
    closing ceremony since 2010.
    David Gilbert was a German mathematician and universalist who contributed significantly to
    the development of many areas of mathematics. He was a member of many academies of
    sciences including Berlin, Göttingen and the Royal Society of London, and a foreign honorary
    member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1934). Winner of Lobachevsky Prize (1903). In the
    1910s and 1920s he was a recognized world leader in mathematics.
    Hilbert developed a wide range of fundamental ideas in many areas of mathematics. He is best
    known for the first complete axiomatics of Euclidean geometry and the theory of Hilbert spaces,
    one of the foundations of modern functional analysis. He made important contributions to the
    theory of invariants, general algebra, mathematical physics, integral equations and foundations
    of mathematics.

    Hilbert's research had a great influence on the development of many branches of mathematics,
    and his work at the University of Göttingen greatly contributed to making Göttingen one of the
    world's major centres of mathematical thought in the first third of the 20th century. The theses of
    a large number of major mathematicians (among them G. Weil, R. Courant) were written under
    his supervision.
    In 1900, at the Second International Congress of Mathematics, Hilbert formulated his famous list
    of twenty-three unsolved problems, which served as a guide for mathematicians throughout the
    twentieth century. In a polemic with Poincaré and other intuitionists, Hilbert also outlined his
    philosophy of science. He asserted that any consistent mathematical object had a right to be
    regarded as existing even if it had no connection with real objects, nor any intuitive justification
    (the revolutionary construction of set theory was particularly hotly debated at the time). He
    expressed the belief that any mathematical problem could be solved and suggested that we begin
    to axiomatise physics.

    In 1915 Hilbert advised Einstein and helped him to complete the derivation of the field equations
    of general relativity.

    Gilbert died on 14 February 1943 in Göttingen in the war. Only about a dozen people followed
    his coffin. He is buried in Göttingen's Groner Landstrasse cemetery.

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