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At the second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, in 1900, the mathematician David Hilbert was invited to deliver a keynote address, just as Henri Poincaré had been invited to do at the first International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich in 1896.
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Tubbs, R. (2016). Hilbert’s seventh problem: Its statement and origins. In: Hilbert's Seventh Problem. HBA Lecture Notes in Mathematics(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2645-4_1
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