The unpublished correspondences and archival documents allow those who study the past to reconstruct the spirit of an era in its various facets, and to revive “the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream” (Thomas Carlyle 1841). This Chapter presents a wide selection of unpublished letters and documents (69) belonging to the period 1908-1974, coming from different archives, especially from the IMU Archives in Berlin. The purpose is that of highlighting, through the voice of the protagonists, unknown, or lesser known aspects of the history of the ICMI such as, for example, the not always harmonious relations between ICMI and the International Mathematical Union (IMU), the internal dynamics of the Commission, and to discover the motivations behind certain actions.
The voice of the protagonists. A selection of unpublished letters
Livia Giacardi
2022-01-01
Abstract
The unpublished correspondences and archival documents allow those who study the past to reconstruct the spirit of an era in its various facets, and to revive “the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream” (Thomas Carlyle 1841). This Chapter presents a wide selection of unpublished letters and documents (69) belonging to the period 1908-1974, coming from different archives, especially from the IMU Archives in Berlin. The purpose is that of highlighting, through the voice of the protagonists, unknown, or lesser known aspects of the history of the ICMI such as, for example, the not always harmonious relations between ICMI and the International Mathematical Union (IMU), the internal dynamics of the Commission, and to discover the motivations behind certain actions.
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