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Golden years of Moscow mathematics

Smilka Zdravkovska, Peter L. Duren, editors

(History of mathematics, v. 6)

American Mathematical Society , London Mathematical Society, c2007

2nd ed

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References in English and Russian

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This volume contains articles on the history of Soviet mathematics, many of which are personal accounts by mathematicians who witnessed and contributed to the turbulent and glorious years of Moscow mathematics. The articles in the book focus on mathematical developments in that era, the personal lives of Russian mathematicians, and political events that shaped the course of scientific work in the Soviet Union. Important contributions include an article about Luzin and his school, based in part on documents that were released only after perestroika, and two articles on Kolmogorov. The volume concludes with annotated bibliographies in English and Russian for further reading. The revised edition is appended by an article of Tikhomirov, which provides an update and general overview of 20th-century Moscow mathematics, and it also includes an Index of Names. This book should appeal to mathematicians, historians, and anyone else interested in Soviet mathematical history. Information for our distributors: Co-published with the London Mathematical Society beginning with Volume 4. Members of the LMS may order directly from the AMS at the AMS member price. The LMS is registered with the Charity Commissioners.

Table of Contents

Encounters with mathematicians by A. P. Yushkevich The Moscow school of the theory of functions in the 1930s by S. S. Demidov About mathematics at Moscow State University in the late 1940s and early 1950s by E. M. Landis Reminiscences of Soviet mathematicians by B. A. Rosenfeld A. N. Kolmogorov by V. M. Tikhomirov On A. N. Kolmogorov by V. I. Arnold Pages of a mathematical autobiography (1942-1953) by M. M. Postnikov Markov and Bishop: An essay in memory of A. A. Markov (1903-1979) and E. Bishop (1928-1983) by B. A. Kushner Etude on life and automorphic forms in the Soviet Union by I. Piatetski-Shapiro On Soviet mathematics of the 1950s and 1960s by D. B. Fuchs In the other direction by A. B. Sossinsky A brief survey of the literature on the development of mathematics in the USSR by S. S. Demidov Russian bibliography by S. S. Demidov Moscow mathematics--Then and now by V. M. Tikhomirov Errata Index of names.

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