You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein : Adventures And Misadventures Of Young Mathematicians.
Title:
You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein : Adventures And Misadventures Of Young Mathematicians.
Author:
Shifman, M.
ISBN:
9789812701169
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (234 pages)
Contents:
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 -- Acknowledgment -- 1. Problems -- 2. Evaluation of the Problems -- 3. Solutions -- 4. Notes -- References -- SOLUTIONS TO THE YEAR 2000 INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD -- Problems -- Solutions -- References -- MY ROLE AS AN OUTSIDER -- PART 2 -- INTELLECTUAL GENOCIDE -- Introduction -- 1 Mekhmat of MGU [Department of Mechanics and Mathematics] -- 2 MIFI and MFTI -- REMARKS -- SCIENCE AND TOTALITARIANISMa -- ADMISSION TO THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENTS IN RUSSIA IN THE 1970s AND 1980sa -- ENTRANCE EXAMINATION TO THE MEKHMAT a -- Preliminaries -- Elimination of Undesirable School Graduates -- How Things Were Done: The Procedure -- How It Was Done: "Killer" Problems -- Statistics - The Mekhmat at MGU and Other Institutions -- Mathematical Schools and Olympiads -- General Remarks, History -- PART 3 -- FREE EDUCATION AT THE HIGHEST PRICE: -- JEWISH UNIVERSITYa -- REMEMBERING BELLA ABRAMOVNAa -- BELLA ABRAMOVNA SUBBOTOVSKAYAa.
Abstract:
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 âundesirableâ 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 1970sâ80s in the USSR. Specially designed math problems were used not to test studentsâ ingenuity and creativity but, rather, as âkiller problems,â to deny access to higher education to âundesirableâ applicants. The focus of this part is the 1980 essay, âIntellectual Genocideâ, 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 Peopleâs University, the inception of which is associated with Kanevsky, Senderov and Bella Subbotovskaya.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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