You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein: Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians, Or Test Your Skills in Almost Recreational Mathematics
M. Shifman (Editor)
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You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein: Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians, Or Test Your Skills in Almost Recreational Mathematics
By M. Shifman
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
- Number Of Pages: 232
- Publication Date: 2005-06
- ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9812562796
- ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789812562791
Product Description:
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.
Summary: Great Russian math entrance exam questions
Rating: 5
Interesting and tough problems from Moscow State University, Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, and Moscow Institute for Engineering and Physics.
Includes articles on the history of using tougher questions to refuse admission of Jewish students - a form of state-sanctioned discrimination, before the era of perestroika. There is also material covering the alleged KGB assassination of Bella Abramovna - a dedicated math teacher who organized an informal underground university for educating Jewish math students in the Soviet Union. A fascinating read.
Contents:
- Mekh-Mat Entrance Examinations Problems (I Vardi)
- Solutions to the Year 2000 International Mathematical Olympiad (I Vardi)
- My Role as an Outsider, Ilan Vardi's Epilogue (I Vardi)
- Intellectual Genocide (B Kanevsky & V Senderov)
- Remarks (I Vardi)
- Science and Totalitarianism (A Vershik)
- Admission to the Mathematics Departments in Russia in the 1970’s and 1980s (A Vershik)
- Entrance Examination to the Mekh-Mat (A Shen)
- Free Education at the Highest Price (K Tylevich)
- Jewish University (D Fuchs)
- Remembering Bella Abramovna (A Zelevinsky)
- Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya (I Muchnik)
Readership: High school and college mathematics and physics teachers, readers interested in recreational mathematics, and sociologists.
Date: 2006-02-03 Rating: 5
Review:
Great Russian math entrance exam questions
Interesting and tough questions from Moscow State University, Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, and Moscow Institute for Engineering and Physics.
Includes articles on the history of using tougher questions to refuse admissions of Jewish students - a form of state-sanctioned discrimination, before the era of perestroika. There is also material covering the alleged KGB assassination of Bella Abramovna - a dedicated math teacher who organized an informal underground university for educating Jewish math students in the Soviet Union. A fascinating read.
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