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OverviewHistory is not what we were wearing, It is how we had been utterly ruined. B.Pasternak.“Spektorsky” In the spring of 1999 the police found me lying unconscious with a broken forehead next to my bike in the outskirts of Paris, and delivered me to a hospital. It took a few weeks for French doctors to bring me to consciousness. But I did not recognize my son and said about my wife: “this woman says that she is my wife”. 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. But then they added: “Russians are very tough so you should live several months more”. In a Western textbook I had read regarding effects of poisons: “as for alcohol the lethal dose for Russians is several times higher”. Perhaps the same applies to traumas. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Vladimir I. ArnoldPublisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Edition: 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2007 Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9783642066863ISBN 10: 3642066860 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 12 February 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsFirst 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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