- 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
Inhaltsverzeichnis
# 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)
