Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics (History of Mathematics, 6) 0821842617, 9780821842614

This volume contains articles on the history of Soviet mathematics, many of which are personal accounts by mathematician

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English Pages 306 [318] Year 2007

Table of contents :
Cover
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Encounters with Mathematicians - A.P. Yushkevich
The Moscow School of the Theory of Functions in the 1930s - S.S. Demidov
About Mathematics at Moscow State University in the late 1940s and early 1950s - E.M. Landis
Reminiscences of Soviet Mathematicians - B. A. Rosenfeld
A.N. Kolmogorov - V.M. Tikhomirov
On A. N. Kolmogorov - V.I. Arnol'd
Pages of a Mathematical Autobiography (1942-1953) - M.M. Postnikov
Markov and Bishop: An Essay in Memory of A.A. Markov (1903-1979) and E. Bishop (1928-1983) - Boris A. Kushner
Etude on Life and Automorphic Forms in the Soviet Union - Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
On Soviet Mathematics of the 1950s and 1960s - D.B. Fuchs
In the Other Direction - A.B. Sossinsky
A Brief Survey of the Literature on the Development of Mathematics in the USSR - S.S. Demidov
Bibliografiya - S.S. Demidov (Moscow)
On Moscow Mathematics — Then and Now - V.M. Tikhomirov
ERRATA
Index of Names
Back cover

Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics (History of Mathematics, 6)
0821842617, 9780821842614