YOU FAILED YOUR MATH TEST, COMRADE EINSTEIN: ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES OF YOUNG MATHEMATICIANS

YOU FAILED YOUR MATH TEST, COMRADE EINSTEIN

ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES OF YOUNG MATHEMATICIANS

2005 • 210 pages

- Contains captivating and challenging math problems created by Soviet mathematicians that can be solved using elementary mathematics (i.e. "mathematics before calculus") - Unravels a bizarre page in the history of the exact sciences, i.e., the use of mathematics as a weapon of ideological control of the educational process in the USSR - Collects works by leading mathematicians including Ilan Vardi, B Kanevsky and V Senderov


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