You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein: Adventures And Misdventures of Young Mathematicians, Or Test Your Skills In Almost Recreational Mathematics - Couverture souple

 
9789812562791: You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein: Adventures And Misdventures of Young Mathematicians, Or Test Your Skills In Almost Recreational Mathematics
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ISBN 10 : 9812562796 ISBN 13 : 9789812562791
Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Revue de presse

This book is an interesting examination of an unfortunate period in the Soviet Union. It also contains many interesting mathematical problems requiring not much advanced mathematics. It is ironic that the Soviet anti-Semites' distinction of who was Jewish was the same as that of the Nazis: one Jewish grandparent. --Mathematical Association of America

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Éditeur
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9812562796
ISBN 13 
9789812562791
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
Éditeur
Shifman Misha
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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