2013, ISBN: 9789814338141

This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems suggested to “unde… Mehr…

This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems suggested to “undesirable” applicants to the Department of Mathematics of Moscow University. His second essay gives an in-depth discussion of solutions to the Year 2000 International Mathematical Olympiad, with emphasis on the comparison of the olympiad problems to those given at the Moscow University entrance examinations.The second part of the book provides a historical background of a unique phenomenon in mathematics, which flourished in the 1970s–80s in the USSR. Specially designed math problems were used not to test students' ingenuity and creativity but, rather, as “killer problems,” to deny access to higher education to “undesirable” applicants. The focus of this part is the 1980 essay, “Intellectual Genocide”, written by B Kanevsky and V Senderov. It is being published for the first time. Also featured is a little-known page of the Soviet history, a rare example of the oppressed organizing to defend their dignity. This is the story of the so-called Jewish People's University, the inception of which is associated with Kanevsky, Senderov and Bella Subbotovskaya.Contents: Mekh-Mat Entrance Examinations Problems (I Vardi) Solutions to the Year 2000 International Mathematical Olympiad (I Vardi) My Role as an Outsider, Ilan Vardi's Epilogue (I Vardi) Intellectual Genocide (B Kanevsky & V Senderov) Remarks (I Vardi) Science and Totalitarianism (A Vershik) Admission to the Mathematics Departments in Russia in the 1970's and 1980s (A Vershik) Entrance Examination to the Mekh-Mat (A Shen) Free Education at the Highest Price (K Tylevich) Jewish University (D Fuchs) Remembering Bella Abramovna (A Zelevinsky) Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya (I Muchnik) Readership: High school and college mathematics and physics teachers, readers interested in recreational mathematics, and sociologists. Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians WSPC Education General 9789812562791 DE,GB,US,ES,IT,FR,MX English Education, World Scientific Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9789814338141

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by M Shifman, PRINT ISBN: 9789812563583 E-TEXT ISBN: 9789814338141 Additional ISBNs: 9789812562791|9789812563583, 9812562796|981256358X, 9789812562791, 9812562796 World Scientific Publishing eBook Other pricing structure might be available at vitalsource.com., World Scientific<

2005, ISBN: 9789814338141

Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: World Scientific Publishing Company], World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005

2005, ISBN: 9789814338141

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: World Scientific Publishing Company], World Scientific Publishing Company, 2005

2005, ISBN: 9789814338141

Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians, eBook Download (EPUB), eBooks, [PU: World Scientific Publishing Company]