You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein: Adventures And Misdventures of Young Mathematicians or Test your skills in almost recreataional Mathematics

M. Shifman

ISBN 10: 981256358X / ISBN 13: 9789812563583

Verlag: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2005

Beschreibung

new title edition. 232 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein: Adventures And Misdventures of Young Mathematicians or Test your skills in almost recreataional Mathematics
• Verlag: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 981256358X
• ISBN-13: 9789812563583
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Brand New

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.