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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.
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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Moscow University, Bella Abramovna, Soviet Union, Bella Subbotovskaya, Mathematical Association of America, Intellectual Genocide, Leningrad University, Mathematical Intelligencer, New York, Valery Senderov, International Mathematical Olympiads, Alexander Shen, Igor Averbakh, Igor Rivin, Jewish University, Ofer Gabber, Professor Sadovnichii, Virgin Lands, Department of History, Leonid Polterovich, Marcel Berger, Moscow State University, Professor of Mathematics, Rebekka Evseevna, The College of New Jersey New!
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The recent articles of Anatoly Vershik and Alexander Shen [1, 2] describe discrimination against Jews in Soviet universities during the 1970's and 1980's. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
valery senderov, olympiad problems, resulting tetrahedrons, killer problems, mathematical olympiads, examination session, mathematical schools, mathematical circles, circumscribed circle, angle bisectors, math schools, triangular pyramid Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Moscow University, Bella Abramovna, Soviet Union, Bella Subbotovskaya, Mathematical Association of America, Intellectual Genocide, Leningrad University, Mathematical Intelligencer, New York, Valery Senderov, International Mathematical Olympiads, Alexander Shen, Igor Averbakh, Igor Rivin, Jewish University, Ofer Gabber, Professor Sadovnichii, Virgin Lands, Department of History, Leonid Polterovich, Marcel Berger, Moscow State University, Professor of Mathematics, Rebekka Evseevna, The College of New Jersey New!
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- Geometry Revisited (Mathematical Association of America Textbooks) by H. S. M. Coxeter on page 75, and page 102
- Projective Geometry by H.S.M. Coxeter on page 75
- Differential Calculus by H. Cartan on page 194
- Differential Forms (Dover Books on Mathematics) by Henri Cartan on page 194
- Functions of a Real Variable by Nicolas Bourbaki on page 194
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