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At the 1900 congress in Paris , France , David Hilbert announced his famous list of 23 Open Problems in mathematics, now called Hilbert's Problems . At the 1912 congress in Cambridge , Edmund Landau listed four basic problems about Prime Number s, now called Landau's Problems . The 1924 congress at Toronto was organized by John Charles Fields , founder of the Fields Medal ; it included a roundtrip rail excursion to Vancouver and ferry to Victoria .

The 1998 congress was attended by 3,346 participants. The American Mathematical Society reported that over 4,500 partipants attended the 2006 conference. The King Of Spain presided over the 2006 conference opening ceremony.


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