T. A. Tokareva

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«When I was still a boy... I wanted to become a philosopher...» (100th anniversary of the birth of A. P. Yushkevich)

Issue 3 from 01.09.2006

This work is dedicated to the hundredth anniversary jubilee of the distinguished historian of mathematics Adolf Pavlovich Yushkevich. His nearly seventy years of scholarly activity aimed toward the development of historical research on mathematics and contributed to the rise of one of the world leading research schools in the history of mathematics.

The Soviet history of mathematics school was founded by S. A. Yanovskaia and M. Ya. Vygodsky at Moscow State University in the mid-1920s. A. P. Yushkevich joined them at the end of the decade and subsequently became the most significant figure not only in Moscow, but in the entire Soviet history of mathematics community.Adolf Pavlovich strove to organize an energetic scholarly life and create an active group (or groups) of researchers in Russia to investigate all of the chief areas in the contemporary history of mathematics. The main activity centered around the seminar in the history of mathematics (and later mechanics) founded by Yanovskaia and Vygodsky at Moscow State University’s mechanical-mathematical department in 1933. Yushkevich joined the leadership of the seminar in 1944. He paid particular attention to the organization of a series of annual volumes on «Studies in the History of Mathematics», which he edited from 1948 to the end of his life. Both the seminar and the series continue to the present day. Yushkevich published groundbreaking studies of diverse subjects in the history of mathematics: medieval (in particular, Arab) mathematics; history of calculus; history of mathematics in Russia; and mathematical works by Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, and Ostrogradsky. He also trained students who became leading specialists in the history of mathematics in the Soviet Union and internationally.

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«The publication in the Soviet Union of ‘Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art’ in Russian translation is an important event...» (on the first steps of European studies in the history of ancient Chinese mathematics). Publication by T. A. Tokareva

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