Yesterday and Long Ago

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

AvVladimir I. Arnold

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It took a few weeks for French doctors to bring me to consciousness. A doctor asked me how many years we had been married. I answered correctly, “twenty four”, and the doctor wrote down: “arithmetical abilities are preserved”. Later, French doctors told me that with such a trauma any Frenchman would succumb immediately.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-10-11
Mått127 x 190 x 20 mm
Vikt278 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor230
Upplaga2007
FörlagSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN9783540287346
OriginaltitelIstorii davnie i nedavnie

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First recollections.- The North-West direction.- Vera Stepanovna Arnold (Zhitkova).- First scientific recollections.- The Arnold family.- Home library.- The axiomatic method.- School years.- The color of a meridian.- It is difficult to keep a secret.- The temple of science.- The state exam on the principles of Marxism-Leninism.- Who did what.- Lavoisier and French mathematics during the Revolution.- Queen Eleanor, Rosamund, and labyrinth theory.- Place des Vosges.- Chample Zee.- Neutrinos, neutrons, and Bruno Pontecorvo.- How to distinguish good from bad mathematical works.- Plutarch’s combinatorics.- The topology of surfaces according to Alexander of Macedonia.- Hunting for snakes.- The guillotine and Marie-Antoinette.- The torments of Damiens.- Queen Margot and the kingdom of legality.- Joan of Arc — a saint and a witch.- Ravaillac, French cuisine, and traffic jams.- Anna Yaroslavna.- Gennady of Novgorod and education of youth under Ivan III.- Catherine I and the Prut campaign.- Catherine II and I.I. Betskoy.- The Crimean war.- Dashkova and parachutes.- Profanation of a sacred object and abstract algebra.- Caesar and Gauls: the defence of Rome from the Germans.- France — Guinea — India.- Tamil tigers in the Swiss Consulate in Paris.- The planning department.- Mountain lions over Stanford.- Hong Kong.- Brazil trips.- Leibniz as a precursor of Bourbaki.- The origin of mathematics: the route from Egypt to Greece.- The motivation for teaching mathematics in Israel.- The struggle with foreigners and their languages.- “Our Manchuria”.- From the history of the French economy.- Ramanujan and Hardy.- Picking up cranberries.- Tomography of the brain, geometry, and algebra.- Inedible hares.- How Academicians were elected and how they were eliminated.- Weierstrass andSophia Kovalevskaya.- Radischev.- Mandate (“Nakaz”) of Catherine II.- Religion and science, Luther and anti-Semitism.- Galileo.- “Mistral” in the “Crown”.- Abel’s theory and modern mathematics.- From Pareto to Arzamas.- Whether the Moon will fall onto the Earth or not?.- The pike of Cambridge.- Pon’goma river and Solovki.- The Suputinsky nature reserve.- The Yamal peninsula and grubbing snow caves.- The Pocha river and a dog named Shnura.- Aksin’ino cemetery.

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