Ilya Nikolaevich Bronshtein (, , also written as ; born 1903, died 1976) was a Russian

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and

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Work and life

Bronshtein taught at the

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(MAMI), then the State College of Mechanical Engineering, on the Chair of Advanced Mathematics established in 1939. He also collaborated at the Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute. With Dmitrii Abramovich Raikov, Bronshtein authored a Russian handbook on elementary mathematics, mechanics and physics (), which was published in 1943. Bronshtein is known as the author of a handbook of mathematics for engineers and students of technical universities, which he wrote together with

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around the 1939/1940 timeframe. Hot lead typesetting for the work had already started when the

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prohibited further development and the print matrices were relocated. After the

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, they were first considered lost, but could be found again years later, so that the first edition of could finally be published in 1945. This was a major success and went through eleven editions in Russia and was translated into various languages, including German and English, until the publisher Nauka planned to replace it with a translation of the American

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by Granino and

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in 1968. However, in a parallel development starting in 1970, the so called "

Bronshtein and Semendyayev ''Bronshtein and Semendyayev'' (often just ''Bronshtein'' or ''Bronstein'', sometimes ''BS'') (Or Handbook Of Mathematics) is the informal name of a comprehensive handbook of fundamental working knowledge of mathematics and table of formulas o ...

" (BS), which had been translated into German in 1958, underwent a major overhaul by a team of East-German authors around Günter Grosche, Viktor & Dorothea Ziegler (of

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), to which Bronshtein himself could no longer contribute due to reasons of age. This was published in 1979 and spawned translations into many other languages as well, including a retranslation into Russian and an English edition. In 1986, the 13th Russian edition was published. The German ' Wende' and the later

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led to considerable changes in the publishing environment in Germany between 1989 and 1991, which eventually resulted in two independent German publishing branches by

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(published 1995–2013) and by & Heiner Mühlig (published 1992–2020) to expand and maintain the work up to the present, again with translations into many other languages including English.

Publications

* * With Semendyayev: "Handbook of Mathematics for Engineers and Students of Technical Universities" (

Справочник по математике для инженеров и учащихся втузов ''Bronshtein and Semendyayev'' (often just ''Bronshtein'' or ''Bronstein'', sometimes ''BS'') (Or Handbook Of Mathematics) is the informal name of a comprehensive handbook of fundamental working knowledge of mathematics and table of formulas o ...

), Moscow, 1945

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bronshtein, Ilya Nikolaevich Soviet mathematicians Academic staff of Bauman Moscow State Technical University Soviet historians 1903 births 1976 deaths Historians of mathematics

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