International Congress Of Mathematicians Comes To Asia

The 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians will be held in Seoul, Korea and feature Asian mathematical research.

AsianScientist (Apr. 7, 2014) – This year’s biggest mathematical congress will have a significant Asian flavor.

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) will be held in Seoul, Korea from August 13-21, 2014 and feature speakers from the Asian mathematics community.

Among the invited speakers is Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang, whose recent work on prime numbers has led to significant progress in the understanding of gaps, or distances, between these numbers. Understanding such “prime number gaps” could lead to new insights into what is known as the Twin Prime Conjecture, which hypothesizes that there are infinitely many pairs of primes that are only two numbers apart.

Other invited speakers include mathematicians from Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India and Australia. Invited speakers will talk about various topics ranging from theoretical mathematics to applications of math in technology and education.

“We will make every effort to make (the congress) a turning point for mathematics; to reach out to the public and to be recognized and valued by society,” says Hyungju Park, chairman of the Seoul ICM 2014 organizing committee, on the congress website.

Founded in the 1890s by German mathematicians Felix Klein and Georg Cantor, the ICM is the largest international congress in the mathematics community. Each year, the Nevanlinna Prize, Gauss Prize, Chern Medal and the Fields Medal – widely regarded as the Nobel Prize for Mathematics – are awarded during the opening ceremony.

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Source: Seoul International Congress of Mathematicians 2014.
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