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I do own "Marx demystifies calculus" (not as ridiculous as it sounds nor as profound) and 3 soviet era math books (published through MIT press -threadjack: has

I do own "Marx demystifies calculus" (not as ridiculous as it sounds nor as profound) and 3 soviet era math books (published through MIT press -threadjack: has anyone else wondered if MIT ever felt any heat circa McCarthy as they did a lot of collaboration with soviet scientists not to mention the cybernetic work of werner/stafford beer)

rglovejoy 17y ago
During the Stalin era and for several years afterwards, cybernetics research was discouraged as "anti-soviet": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_research_in_the_Soviet_Union#Cybernetics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_research_in_the_Sovi...