You failed your math test, comrade Einstein : adventures and misadventures of young mathematicians or test your skills in almost recreational mathematics /
"Two essays written by well-known mathematician Ilan Vardi, who is currently living in France, constitute the book's core. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems given to "undesirable" applicants to the Department of Mathematics, Moscow University. The...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
2005.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: From the editor / M. Shifman
- Mekh-Mat entrance examinations problems / Ilan Vardi
- Solutions to the year 2000 International Mathematical Olympiad / Ilan Vardi
- My role as an outsider, Ilan Vardi's epilogue / Ilan Vardi
- Intellectual genocide / B. Kanevsky / V. Senderov
- Remarks / Ilan Vardi
- Science and totalitarianism / A. Vershik
- Admission to the mathematics departments in Russia in the 1970s and 1980s / A. Vershik
- Entrance examination to the Mekhmat / A. Shen
- Free education at the highest price / K. Tylevich
- Jewish University / D. Fuchs
- Remembering Bella Abramovna / A. Zelevinsky.