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Framing Global Mathematics
Recalling the century which preceded the founding of all the big international
scientific unions which are still going strong today is more than a chore that one
has to get out of the way before moving on to the real story; it is the only way
to understand what these international unions could be in the first place, at the
time of their creation, and how they could develop thereafter. The new international
scientific unions created after World War I, and the IMU in particular, were shaped
by closely intertwined, diverse and contradictory tendencies. These influences—
political, economic, technical, cultural, scientific; romantic or rational—are reflected
on in the following pages.
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