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Jewish People's University
Jewish People's University – unofficial semi-underground mathematical courses in Moscow in 1978–1982. History of creation The idea of creating a People's University came about by interviewing applicants MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (Mekhmat) who did not pass the selection committee, primarily due to their Jewish origin , from mathematicians Bella Subbotovskaya and Valery Senderov. The first stream was recruited in 1978 directly at Moscow State University and amounted to 14 people. Classes were held at Bella Abramovna's apartment. The sets of 1979 – 1981 and exceeded 100 people, not all of whom, however, remained after the first year: for example, out of more than 120 people recruited in 1980 , about 60 remained. This is due to both the very high level of difficulty of the material taught and the fact that students were forced to study at other institutes at the same time and not everyone could withstand this pace. Classes were held in various classrooms thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MSU Faculty Of Mechanics And Mathematics
The MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics (russian: Механико-математический факультет МГУ) is a faculty of Moscow State University. History Although lectures in mathematics had been delivered since Moscow State University was founded in 1755, the mathematical and physical department was founded only in 1804. The Mathematics and Mechanics Department was founded on 1 May 1933 and comprised mathematics, mechanics and astronomy departments (the latter passed to the Physics Department in 1956). In 1953 the department moved to a new building on the Sparrow Hills and the current division in mathematics and mechanics branches was settled. In 1970, the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics broke off the department due to the research in computer science. A 2014 article entitled "Math as a tool of anti-semitism" in ''The Mathematics Enthusiast'' discussed antisemitism in the Moscow State University’s Department of Mathematics duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Subbotovskaya
Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya (17 December 1937 – 23 September 1982) was a Soviet mathematician who founded the short-lived Jewish People's University (1978–1983) in Moscow. Szpiro, G. (2007),Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya and the Jewish People's University, ''Notices of the American Mathematical Society'', 54(10), 1326–1330.Zelevinsky, A. (2005), "Remembering Bella Abramovna", ''You Failed Your Math Test Comrade Einstein'' (M. Shifman, ed.), World Scientific, 191–195. The school's purpose was to offer free education to those affected by structured anti-Semitism within the Soviet educational system. Its existence was outside Soviet authority and it was investigated by the KGB. Subbotovskaya herself was interrogated a number of times by the KGB and shortly thereafter was hit by a truck and died, in what has been speculated was an assassination. Academic work Prior to founding the Jewish People's University, Subbotovskaya published papers in mathematical logic. Her result ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Senderov
Valery Senderov (russian: Валерий Сендеров; 17 March 1945 – 12 November 2014) was a Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher, and advocate of human rights known for his struggle against state-sponsored antisemitism. Biography Senderov was born on 17 March 1945 in Moscow. In 1962, he was accepted at the prestigious Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he studied mathematics. In 1968, just before completing his doctoral dissertation, Senderov was expelled for the dissemination of "philosophical literature", which was a euphemism for anything that was viewed by the censors as being anti-Soviet. He was given the opportunity to complete his degree in 1970. In the 1970s, Senderov taught mathematics at the Second Mathematical School in Moscow. Toward the end of the decade, he joined the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists, an anticommunist organization headed by Russian emigres, and also the International Society for Human Rights. In the 1980s, Sendero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Mikhailovich Vinogradov
Alexandre Mikhailovich Vinogradov (russian: Александр Михайлович Виноградов; 18 February 1938 – 20 September 2019) was a Russian and Italian mathematician. He made important contributions to the areas of differential calculus over commutative algebras, the algebraic theory of differential operators, homological algebra, differential geometry and algebraic topology, mechanics and mathematical physics, the geometrical theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and secondary calculus. Biography A.M. Vinogradov was born on 18 February 1938 in Novorossiysk. His father, Mikhail Ivanovich Vinogradov, was a hydraulics scientist; his mother, Ilza Alexandrovna Firer, was a medical doctor. Among his more distant ancestors, his great-grandfather, Anton Smagin, was a self-taught peasant and a deputy of the State Duma of the second convocation. Between 1955 and 1960 Vinogradov studied at the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Moscow State Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Zelevinsky
Andrei Vladlenovich Zelevinsky (; 30 January 1953 – 10 April 2013) was a Russian-American mathematician who made important contributions to algebra, combinatorics, and representation theory, among other areas. Biography Zelevinsky graduated in 1969 from the Moscow Mathematical School No. 2. After winning a silver medal as a member of the USSR team at the International Mathematical Olympiad he was admitted without examination to the mathematics department of Moscow State University where he obtained his PhD in 1978 under the mentorship of Joseph Bernstein, Alexandre Kirillov and Israel Gelfand. He worked in the mathematical laboratory of Vladimir Keilis-Borok at the Institute of Earth Science (1977–85), and at the Council for Cybernetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1985–90). In the early 1980s, at a great personal risk, he taught at the Jewish People's University, an unofficial organization offering first-class mathematics education to talented students denied admiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Fuchs
Dmitry Borisovich Fuchs (Дмитрий Борисович Фукс, born 30 September 1939, Kazan, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Russian-American mathematician, specializing in the representation theory of infinite-dimensional Lie groups and in topology. Education and career Fuchs received in 1964 his Russian candidate degree (Ph.D.) under Albert S. Schwarz at Moscow State University, where he taught thereafter. Schwarz conducted a seminar on algebraic topology with Mikhail Postnikov and Vladimir Boltyanski. Fuchs participated in the seminar and, as a student, published papers with Schwarz, as did Askold Ivanovich Vinogradov a few years earlier. Fuchs received his Russian doctorate (higher doctoral degree) in 1987 at Tbilisi State University. Since 1991 he has been a professor at the University of California, Davis. With Israel Gelfand he introduced in 1970 the Gelfand-Fuchs cohomology of Lie algebras. Gelfand-Fuchs cohomology has applications in the proof of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Milnor
John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and one of the five mathematicians to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, and the Abel Prize (the others being Serre, Thompson, Deligne, and Margulis.) Early life and career Milnor was born on February 20, 1931, in Orange, New Jersey. His father was J. Willard Milnor and his mother was Emily Cox Milnor. As an undergraduate at Princeton University he was named a Putnam Fellow in 1949 and 1950 and also proved the Fáry–Milnor theorem when he was only 19 years old. Milnor graduated with an A.B. in mathematics in 1951 after completing a senior thesis, titled "Link groups", under the supervision of Robert H. Fox. He remained at Princeton to pursue graduate studies and received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1954 after com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
