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Come on it’s not being biased but completely blind (I don’t want to get banned otherwise I’d use another word). Out of nowhere: Kantorovich, Kolmogorov, Smirno
by rq1 7y ago
Come on it’s not being biased but completely blind (I don’t want to get banned otherwise I’d use another word).
Out of nowhere: Kantorovich, Kolmogorov, Smirnov, Markov, Chebychev, Chernoff, Sobolev, Egorov, Novikov, Galerkine, Levenstein, Alexandrov... etc.
Some could cite physicists like Sakharov, Bronstein, Friedmann, Ginzburg... etc.
Their approach to Variational Calculus was very unique back then ahead of their time.
Speaking of... I forgot to mention Pontryagin!
They messed a lot of stuff but not their academy, nor the mass education.
- dubya 7y agoI've just been reading "Love and Math" by Edward Frenkel, which I recommend for his view of modern mathematics. His take on Soviet science was that math and physics (and maybe other hard sciences) were mostly left outside of Communist party control, while things like literature, humanities, psychology, ... things where party officials might not hesitate to express an ill-formed opinion, were dormant or party-controlled nonsense during the Soviet era. Frenkel is a Soviet-born mathematician who left the country just before Glasnost, who was discriminated against for having a Jewish surname.