First International Topological Conference

With presentations by topologists from 10 different countries it constituted the first genuinely international meeting devoted to topology in the world history of the mathematical community.

[2] Pavel Aleksandrov played a key role in organising the conference.

[1] The foreign delegates were accommodated in major hotels across Moscow, although according to André Weil, the principal form of sustenance was Caviar Canapes served in the conference hall, as no food was available in the hotel restaurants.

[2] Documentation of the conference varies, but this summary was drawn from various sources.

[1] The following topologists made presentations: Czechoslovakia: France: Netherlands Poland:

Attendees of the First International Topological Conference, Moscow, 4–10 September, 1935