The Practice of Mathematics in a Totalitarian Society

A. B. Sossinsky ()

A chapter in Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, 2024, pp 869-879 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The author, who came to the Soviet Union in 1957 from the West, describes his own experience in the totalitarian regime in the USSR and the attitudes of the leading Russian mathematicians of his generation to the regime in the period from 1957 to 1987.

Keywords: Mathematics; Mathematicians; USSR; Totalitarian regime; 01.11; 01.A60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40846-5_69

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