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Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics: Second Edition
Share this pageEdited by Smilka Zdravkovska; Peter L. Duren
A co-publication of the AMS and the London Mathematical Society
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.
Readership
Undergraduates, graduate students and research mathematicians interested in the history of mathematics, especially in Russia.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics: Second Edition
- Cover Cover11
- Title page iii4
- Contents v6
- Encounters with mathematicians 18
- The Moscow school of the theory of functions in the 1930s 3542
- About mathematics at Moscow State University in the late 1940s and early 1950s 5562
- Reminiscences of Soviet mathematicians 7582
- A.N. Kolmogorov 101108
- On A.N. Kolmogorov 129136
- Pages of a mathematical autobiography (1942-1953) 155162
- Markov and Bishop - an essay in memory of A.A. Markov (1903-1979) and E. Bishop (1928-1983) 179186
- Etude on life and automorphic forms in the Soviet Union 199206
- On Soviet mathematics of the 1950s and 1960s 213220
- In the other direction 223230
- A brief survey of the literature on the development of mathematics in the USSR 245252
- Russian bibliography 263270
- Back Cover Back Cover1323