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On November 17, 1896, Hermann Minkowski, a professor at the Zürich Polytechnikum, or Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, better known today as the ETH, added a postscript to his letter to David Hilbert: “It just occurs to me- for several days we have been meeting in regard to the international mathematical congress.”
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Albers, D., Alexanderson, G., Reid, C. (1979). Zurich 1897. In: International Mathematical Congresses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8710-7_2
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