The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction
    ICMI 
    Bulletin No. 48 
    June 2000

    ICMI Executive Committees 1908-1998

    During the fourth International Congress of Mathematicians, held in Rome in 1908, the following resolution was adopted:

      "The Congress, recognizing the importance of a comparative study on the methods and plans of teaching mathematics at secondary schools, charges Professors F. Klein, G. Greenhill, and Henri Fehr to constitute an International Commission to study these questions and to present a report to the next Congress."

    This resolution was submitted on the initiative of David Eugene Smith, who had suggested the idea of such an international commission three years earlier in the journal L'Enseignement Mathématique, in response to an article by Fehr. It marks the inception of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction - although the Commission was known in its earlier years as the "International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics".

    Over the years various Executives Committees of the Commission (first known as "Central Committees") have succeeded one another. The list of their officers and members appears below. This information has been gathered from the following sources:
    • Georges de Rham, "L'Enseignement Mathématique - Revue internationale et la Commission internationale de l'enseignement mathématique (CIEM) - Notice historique", ICMI Bulletin 7 (1976) 29-34.
    • A. Geoffrey Howson, "Seventy-five years of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction", Educational Studies in Mathematics 15 (1984) 75-93.
    • Olli Lehto, Mathematics Without Borders: A History of the International Mathematical Union, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

    Bernard R. Hodgson, Secretary


    CENTRAL COMMITTEES OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS


    1908-1912
    President :
    Vice-President :
    Secretary General :     		Felix KLEIN (Germany)
    George GREENHILL (UK)
    Henri FEHR (Switzerland)

    1912-1920
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary General :
    Members :     		Felix KLEIN (Germany)
    George GREENHILL (UK)
    David Eugene SMITH (USA)
    Henri FEHR (Switzerland)
    Guido CASTELNUOVO (Italy)
    Emanuel CZUBER (Austria)
    Jacques HADAMARD (France)

    1928-1932
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary General :
    Member :     		David Eugene SMITH (USA)
    Guido CASTELNUOVO (Italy)
    Jacques HADAMARD (France)
    Henri FEHR (Switzerland)
    Walter LIETZMANN (Germany)

    1932-1936 and 1936-
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :


    Secretary General :
    Member :     		Jacques HADAMARD (France)
    Poul HEEGAARD (Norway)
    Walter LIETZMANN (Germany)
    Gaetano SCORZA (Italy)
    Henri FEHR (Switzerland)
    Eric Harold NEVILLE (UK)


    EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON MATHEMATICAL INSTRUCTION


    1952-1954
    Honorary President :
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :




    Ex officio :     		Henri FEHR (Switzerland)
    Albert CHÂTELET (France)
    Georges KUREPA (Yugoslavia)
    Saunders MAC LANE (USA)
    Heinrich BEHNKE (Germany)
    Aksel Frederik ANDERSEN (Denmark)
    Guido ASCOLI (Italy)
    Evert W. BETH (Netherlands)
    Ralph L. JEFFERY (Canada)
    Edwin A. MAXWELL (UK)
    Marshall H. STONE (USA) - President of IMU

    1955-1958
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :


    Ex officio :     		Heinrich BEHNKE (Germany)
    Georges KUREPA (Yugoslavia)
    Marshall H. STONE (USA)
    Julien DESFORGE (France)
    Ram BEHARI (India)
    Edwin A. MAXWELL (UK)
    Kay PIENE (Norway)
    Heinz HOPF (Switzerland) - President of IMU

    1959-1962
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :


    Ex officio :     		Marshall H. STONE (USA)
    Heinrich BEHNKE (Germany)
    Georges KUREPA (Yugoslavia)
    Gilbert WALUSINSKI (France)
    Yasuo AKIZUKI (Japan)
    Alexandr D. ALEXANDROV (USSR)
    Otto FROSTMAN (Sweden)
    Rolf NEVANLINNA (Finland) - President of IMU

    1963-1966
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :


    Ex officio :     		André LICHNEROWICZ (France)
    Edwin MOISE (USA)
    Stefan STRASZEWICZ (Poland)
    André DELESSERT (Switzerland)
    Yasuo AKIZUKI (Japon)
    Heinrich BEHNKE (Germany)
    Hans FREUDENTHAL (Netherlands)
    Georges de RHAM (Switzerland) - President of IMU

    1967-1970
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :


    Ex officio :     		Hans FREUDENTHAL (Netherlands)
    Edwin MOISE (USA)
    Sergei L. SOBOLEV (USSR)
    André DELESSERT (Switzerland)
    Heinrich BEHNKE (Germany)
    André REVUZ (France)
    Bryan THWAITES (UK)
    Henri CARTAN (France) - President of IMU

    1971-1974
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :

    Ex officio :     		James LIGHTHILL (UK)
    Shokichi IYANAGA (Japan)
    János SURÁNYI (Hungary)
    Edwin A. MAXWELL (UK)
    Henry O. POLLAK (USA)
    Sergei L. SOBOLEV (USSR)
    Hans FREUDENTHAL (Netherlands) - Past President of ICMI
    Komaravolu CHANDRASEKHARAN (Switzerland) - President of IMU
    Otto FROSTMAN (Sweden) - Secretary of IMU
    André LICHNEROWICZ (France) - CTS/ICSU

    1975-1978
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :

    Ex officio :     		Shokichi IYANAGA (Japon)
    Bent CHRISTIANSEN (Denmark)
    Hans-Georg STEINER (Germany)
    Yukiyoshi KAWADA (Japan)
    Edward G. BEGLE (USA)
    Lev D. KUDRJAVCEV (USSR)
    James LIGHTHILL (UK) - Past President of ICMI
    Deane MONTGOMERY (USA) - President of IMU
    Jacques-Louis LIONS (France) - Secretary of IMU
    Hans FREUDENTHAL (Netherlands) - CTS/ICSU

    1979-1982
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :


    Ex officio :     		Hassler WHITNEY (USA)
    Bent CHRISTIANSEN (Denmark)
    Ubiratan D'AMBROSIO (Brazil)
    Peter HILTON (USA)
    Stanley H. ERLWANGER (Canada)
    Bernhard H. NEUMANN (Australia)
    Zbigniew SEMADENI (Poland)
    Shokichi IYANAGA (Japan) - Past President of ICMI
    Lennart CARLESON (Sweden) - President of IMU
    Jacques-Louis LIONS (France) - Secretary of IMU
    Bent CHRISTIANSEN (Denmark) - CTS/ICSU

    1983-1986
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :


    Ex officio :     		Jean-Pierre KAHANE (France)
    Bent CHRISTIANSEN (Denmark)
    Zbigniew SEMADENI (Poland)
    A. Geoffrey HOWSON (UK)
    Bienvenido F. NEBRES (Philippines)
    Michael F. NEWMAN (Australia)
    Henry O. POLLAK (USA)
    Hassler WHITNEY (USA) - Past President of ICMI
    Jürgen MOSER (Switzerland) - President of IMU
    Olli LEHTO (Finland) - Secretary of IMU
    Henri HOGBE-NLEND (France) - CTS/ICSU

    1987-1990
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :


    Ex officio :     		Jean-Pierre KAHANE (France)
    LEE Peng-Yee (Singapore)
    Emilio LLUIS (Mexico)
    A. Geoffrey HOWSON (UK)
    Hiroshi FUJITA (Japan)
    Jeremy KILPATRICK (USA)
    Mogens NISS (Denmark)
    Ludwig FADDEEV (USSR) - President of IMU
    Olli LEHTO (Finland) - Secretary of IMU
    Jacobus H. van LINT (Netherlands) - CTS/ICSU

    1991-1994
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :


    Ex officio :     		Miguel de GUZMÁN (Spain)
    Jeremy KILPATRICK (USA)
    LEE Peng-Yee (Singapore)
    Mogens NISS (Denmark)
    Yuri L. ERSHOV (Russia)
    Eduardo LUNA (USA)
    Anna SIERPINSKA (Canada)
    Jean-Pierre KAHANE (France) - Past President of ICMI
    Jacques-Louis LIONS (France) - President of IMU
    Jacob PALIS (Brazil) - Secretary of IMU
    Jacobus H. van LINT (Netherlands) - CTS/ICSU

    1995-1998
    President :
    Vice-Presidents :

    Secretary :
    Members :



    Ex officio :     		Miguel de GUZMÁN (Spain)
    Jeremy KILPATRICK (USA)
    Anna SIERPINSKA (Canada)
    Mogens NISS (Denmark)
    Colette LABORDE (France)
    Gilah LEDER (Australia)
    Carlos E. VASCO (Colombia)
    ZHANG Dianzhou (China)
    David MUMFORD (USA) - President of IMU
    Jacob PALIS (Brazil) - Secretary of IMU


    Readers are invited to inform the Secretary (bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca) of any error they might have noticed in the preceding information. Some evidence for the corrections should be presented.