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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450675203321

Titolo

You failed your math test, comrade Einstein [[electronic resource] ] : adventures and misadventures of young mathematicians or test your skills in almost recreational mathematics / / edited by M. Shifman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Jersey, : World Scientific, 2005

ISBN

1-281-89692-6

9786611896928

981-270-116-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShifmanMikhail A

Disciplina

510.2347

510.711

510.92

Soggetti

Mathematics

Mathematics - Study and teaching (Higher) - Soviet Union

Mathematical recreations

Electronic books.

Soviet Union History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

FROM THE EDITOR; Mathematics at the service of ideology of "real socialism"; On this book; Thank you; List of Contributors and Advisors; References; CONTENTS; PART 1; MEKH-MAT ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS PROBLEMS; SOLUTIONS TO THE YEAR 2000 INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD; MY ROLE AS AN OUTSIDER; PART 2; INTELLECTUAL GENOCIDE; REMARKS; SCIENCE AND TOTALITARIANISM a; ADMISSION TO THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENTS IN RUSSIA IN THE 1970's AND 1980's a; ENTRANCE EXAMINATION TO THE MEKHMAT a; PART 3; FREE EDUCATION AT THE HIGHEST PRICE:; JEWISH UNIVERSITY a; REMEMBERING BELLA ABRAMOVNAa

BELLA ABRAMOVNA SUBBOTOVSKAYA a

Sommario/riassunto

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 flouri