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The summer following the signing of the Armistice the Inaugural General Assembly of the International Research Council (later described as “interalliée”) met in Brussels to consider a series of post-war scientific congresses. The mathematicians present were not sufficiently numerous nor sufficiently accredited to form the proposed International Mathematical Union, but they decided to elect Charles de la Vallée-Poussin, Louvain, as their chairman and to hold an International Mathematical Congress in Strasbourg the following year.
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Albers, D., Alexanderson, G., Reid, C. (1986). Strasbourg 1920. In: International Mathematical Congresses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0299-5_8
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