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In the 20th century, many mathematicians in Russia made great contributions to the field of mathematics. This invaluable book, which presents the main achievements of Russian mathematicians in that century, is the first most comprehensive book on Russian mathematicians. It has been produced as a gesture of respect and appreciation for those mathematicians and it will serve as a good reference and an inspiration for future mathematicians. It presents differences in mathematical styles and focuses on Soviet mathematicians who often discussed "what to do" rather than "how to do it". Thus, the book will be valued beyond historical documentation.The editor, Professor Yakov Sinai, a distinguished Russian mathematician, has taken pains to select leading Russian mathematicians - such as Lyapunov, Luzin, Egorov, Kolmogorov, Pontryagin, Vinogradov, Sobolev, Petrovski and Krein - and their most important works. One can, for example, find works of Lyapunov, which parallel those of Poincare; and works of Luzin, whose analysis plays a very important role in the history of Russian mathematics; Kolmogorov has established the foundations of probability based on analysis.The editor has tried to provide some parity and, at the same time, included papers that are of interest even today.The original works of the great mathematicians will prove to be enjoyable to readers and useful to the many researchers who are preserving the interest in how mathematics was done in the former Soviet Union. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn, Vladimir Steklov, Solomon Mikhlin, Alexander Beilinson, Andrei Okounkov, Aizik Isaakovich Vol'pert, D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi, Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky, Nikolai Kochin, Yevgraf Fyodorov, Georgy Voronoy, Yuri Dmitrievich Burago, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Joseph Bernstein, Victor Zalgaller, Lev Schnirelmann, Edward Belaga, Nikolai Nikolaevich Yanenko, Viacheslav V. Nikulin, Aleksei Pogorelov, Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Victor Goryunov, Nikolai Brashman, Anatolii Alexeevitch Karatsuba, Yuri Linnik, Oskar Anderson, Naum Vilenkin, Victor Andreevich Toponogov, Alexandre Kirillov, Boris Trakhtenbrot, Vladimir Rokhlin, Lazar Lyusternik, Sergey Borisovich Stechkin, Ludvig Faddeev, Ruslan L. Stratonovich, Yuri Petrovich Ofman, Alexander Skopin, Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko, Aleksandr Gurevich, Aleksandr Nekrasov, Anatoly Vershik, Dimitry Mirimanoff, Andrei Toom, Leonty Magnitsky, Gury Kolosov, Yury Yershov, Andrei Suslin, Pyotr Novikov, Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin, Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Yevgeniy Landis, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Nicolai Reshetikhin, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Mark Naimark, Nikolai Chudakov, Roland Dobrushin, Victor Kolyvagin, Leonid Bunimovich, Wadim Zudilin, Alexey Chervonenkis, Dmitrii Evgenevich Menshov, Nikolay Sergeyevich Krylov, Vadim Arsenyevich Efremovich, Boris Kushner, Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Timofei Fedorovic Osipovsky, Nina Bari, Valery Ivanovich Glivenko, Alexander Molev, Vladimir Andreevich Yakubovich, Dmitrii Sintsov, Andrey Kiselyov, Leonid Vaseršteĭn, Vladimir Andreevich Markov, Mikhail Goussarov, Ernest Vinberg, Aleksei Zinovyevich Petrov, Yaroslav Lopatynsky, Nikolay Govorun, Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshcherskiy, Osip Ivanovich Somov. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Solomon Grigor'evich Mikhl...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22994055 ... Read more

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Chapters: Andrey Markov, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Andrey Kolmogorov, Vladimir Arnold, Grigory Barenblatt, Vladimir Voevodsky, Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn, Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Maxim Kontsevich, Pafnuty Chebyshev, Vladimir Steklov, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Mikhail Lavrentyev, Grigori Perelman, Boris Berezovsky, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Pavel Florensky, Vladimir Korepin, Igor Shafarevich, Alexander Kronrod, Ivan Petrovsky, Anatoly Fomenko, Nikolai Luzin, Mark Krasnosel'skii, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Grigory Margulis, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Sergey Yablonsky, Bruno Abakanowicz, Michel Deza, Yuri Matiyasevich, Alexei Krylov, Alexander Razborov, Mikhail Gromov, Theodor Molien, Alexander Beilinson, Fedor Bogomolov, Misha Verbitsky, Leonid Kantorovich, Alexander Friedmann, Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Paul Sophus Epstein, Sergei Sobolev, Solomon Lefschetz, Sergei Novikov, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Oleg Lupanov, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Vladimir Miklyukov, Aleksandr Korkin, Vadim G. Vizing, Boris Delaunay, Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Nicolai A. Vasiliev, Eugen Slutsky, Victor Glushkov, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Jacob Tamarkin, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Lev Pontryagin, Yakov G. Sinai, Pavel Alexandrov, Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Leonid Levin, Jakow Trachtenberg, Alexander Gelfond, Andrei Okounkov, Anatoly Maltsev, Nikolay Umov, Oleg Viro, Sergei K. Godunov, Yuri I. Manin, Andrei Bolibrukh, D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi, Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov, Victor Shestakov, Nikolai Bugaev, Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky, Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev, Nikolai Kochin, Aleksandr Khinchin, Valery Goppa, Yevgraf Fyodorov, Georgy Voronoy, Leonid Khachiyan, Efim Zelmanov, Dmitry Grave, Dmitri Egorov, Yuri Dmitrievich Burago, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Ferdinand Minding, Dima Grigoriev, Abram Ilyich Fet, Albert Shiryaev, Victor Zalgaller, Yury Osipov, Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya, Edward Belaga, Igor Pak, Ivan Privalov, Mikhail Shubin, Nikolai Nikol...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=355478 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (May 16 [O.S. May 4] 1821 ? December 8 [O.S. November 26] 1894) was a Russian mathematician. His name can be alternatively transliterated as Chebychev, Chebyshov, Tchebycheff or Tschebyscheff (French and German transcriptions). One of nine children, Chebyshev was born in the village of Okatovo in the district of Borovsk, province of Kaluga. His father, Lev Pavlovich, was a Russian nobleman and wealthy landowner. Pafnuty Lvovich was first educated at home by his mother Agrafena Ivanovna (in reading and writing) and by his cousin Avdotya Kvintillianovna Sukhareva (in French and arithmetic). ... Read more

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Leonhard Euler. Mathematician, Physicist, Asteroid 19 2002 Euler, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Visual perception, Seven Bridges of Königsberg, Euler?Bernoulli beam equation, Leonhard Euler Telescope. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Russian History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 325 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. It provides the necessary information for readers to obtain a greater understanding of and appreciation for Russia in all of its many spheres. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Russian History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 320 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. It provides the necessary information for readers to obtain a greater understanding of and appreciation for Russia in all of its many spheres. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Russian History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 464 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. It provides the necessary information for readers to obtain a greater understanding of and appreciation for Russia in all of its many spheres. ... Read more

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This revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists contains a wealth of new information about the lives and accomplishments of more than a dozen scientists throughout five centuries of history: from the first steps in algebra up to new achievements in geometry in connection with physics. The heroes of the book are renowned figures from early eras, such as Cardano, Galileo, Huygens, Leibniz, Pascal, Euler, Lagrange, and Laplace, as well some scientists of last century: Klein, Poincaré, and Ramanujan.

A unique mixture of mathematics, physics, and history, this volume provides biographical glimpses of scientists and their contributions in the context of the social and political background of their times. The author examines many original sources, from the scientists’ research papers to their personal documents and letters to friends and family; furthermore, detailed mathematical arguments and diagrams are supplied to help explain some of the most significant discoveries in calculus, celestial mechanics, number theory, and mathematical physics. What emerges are intriguing, multifaceted studies of a number of remarkable intellectuals and their scientific legacy.

Written by a distinguished mathematician and accessible to readers at all levels, this book is a wonderful resource for both students and teachers and a welcome introduction to the history of science.

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A glimpse into the biographies of some great minds!
Simon Gindikin did an excellent job in this new edition of his book. I got acquainted with his research not too long ago when reading an essay on Penrose's Twistor theory in the "Mathematical Intelligencer" by Springer dating from early 80's.
Eventually I found out the first edition of his book, which was already quite delightful.
The book, besides being filled with witty historical facts, contains also a few interesting problems to improve one's mathematical culture.
I'm particulary kind of the chapter on Huygens and his mechanical works,Poincare's ideas on non-euclidean geometry and finally and the above mentioned article on twistor theory(which could be included on a course on analytical/projective geometry, example).
As my usual cliche, "Two thumbs up!".
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