Meeting under the integral sign? : the Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the eve of the Second World War / Christopher D. Hollings, Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze ; in collaboration with Henrik Kragh Sørensen.

Introduction: Four strategies, the prehistory of the Oslo Congress, and sources
The Norwegian hosts : the newcomer with historical traditions
The German delegation : swaying between expansionism and isolationism
The Russian withdrawal : isolationism out of fear and ideology
The Italian case : mathematics as a victim of world politics
The Congress in the Norwegian dailies
International mathematics shortly before and after the Second World War : a glimpse ahead and back again
Assessing the mathematics of the Congress
The plenary lectures
ICMI
Conclusions regarding the mathematics of the Congress.