The International Mathematical Union (IMU), in the present formation, was
founded in September 1951 and became a member of the International Council of
Scientific Union (ICSU) in October 1952.
The IMU is an international non-government and non-profit scientific
organization.
The statutes of the IMU state that the objectives of the IMU are:
The IMU has recently been increasing its activity since the Secretariat was permanently placed at the Weierstrass Institute in Belin on February 1, 2011.
Japan's National Committee for IMU is the Committee for Mathematics of Japan's Adhering Organization to the IMU, namely, the Science Council of Japan (SCJ). The statutes of the IMU state that the Committee for Mathematics shall act as an adviser to the Adhering Organization in matters concerning the IMU and that the Adhering Organization may, if it wishes, delegate some of its power to the Committee for Mathematics.
The objectives of Japan's National Committee for IMU are:
Tohru Ozawa, April 17, 2018