You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein: Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians

Misha Shifman

ISBN 10: 981256358X / ISBN 13: 9789812563583

Verlag: World Scientific Publishing Company Mai 2005, 2005

Beschreibung

Neuware - - Contains captivating and challenging math problems created by Soviet mathematicians that can be solved using elementary mathematics (i.e. 'mathematics before calculus')- Unravels a bizarre page in the history of the exact sciences, i.e., the use of mathematics as a weapon of ideological control of the educational process in the USSR- Collects works by leading mathematicians including Ilan Vardi, B Kanevsky and V Senderov.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9789812563583

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein: Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians
• Verlag: World Scientific Publishing Company Mai 2005
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 981256358X
• ISBN-13: 9789812563583
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 237B x 154 H x 16 T Millimeter Breite: 237 mm, Höhe: 154 mm, Tiefe: 16 mm
• Gewicht: 503 Gramm

Über diesen Titel

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.