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==Naming== The prize was originally named to honour the Finnish mathematician [[Rolf Nevanlinna]] who had died a year before the prize's creation in 1981. The medal featured a profile of Nevanlinna, the text "Rolf Nevanlinna Prize", and very small characters "RH 83" on its obverse. RH refers to [[Raimo Heino]], the medal's designer, and 83 to the year of first minting. On the reverse, two figures related to the [[University of Helsinki]], the prize sponsor, are engraved. The rim bears the name of the prizewinner.<ref>{{cite web |title = History of the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize |last = Lehto |first = Olli |publisher = International Mathematical Union |date = August 12, 1998 |url = http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/nevanlinna/details/ |access-date = 2007-01-30 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080513204140/http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/nevanlinna/details/ |archive-date = May 13, 2008}}</ref> [[Alexander Soifer]], president of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions, complained about the prize's honouring of Nevanlinna, as he was a supporter of Hitler and had acted as a representative for the [[Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS]] during World War II. Soifer discussed Nevanlinna's wartime activities in a 2015 book, and forwarded his personal and his organization’s requests to the Executive Committee of IMU to change the Prize's name.<ref>{{cite web |title = The Secretive Life of the International Mathematics Union |publisher = Alexander Soifer |date = 2017-07-01 |url = http://geombina.uccs.edu/?page_id=1715}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title = The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden| pages= 189, 286–288 |first = Alexander|last= Soifer |publisher = Birkhäuser|location= Basel|edition= 1st |date = 2015 |doi=10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8| isbn= 978-3-0348-0711-1 }}</ref> In July 2018, the 18th General Assembly of the IMU decided to remove the name of Rolf Nevanlinna from the prize.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Organization/GA/Resolutions/Resolutions2018r.pdf | title=Resolutions of the IMU General Assembly 2018 – Resolution 7 | publisher=International Mathematical Union | access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref> It was later announced that the prize would be named the IMU Abacus Medal.<ref name=abacus>{{cite magazine|url=https://scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/imu-abacus-medal/|first=Katie|last=Steckles|date=May 23, 2019|magazine=[[Spektrum der Wissenschaft]]|department=Heidelberg Laureate Forum Blog|title=IMU Abacus Medal}}</ref>
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