How Far It Is to Tomorrow...: Reflections of an Eminent Russian Applied Mathematician 1917-2000 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030966508)

Introduction .- Preface .- To the reader .- The beginning .- Chapter I. On a knife edge .- Chapter II. A few really happy years .- Chapter III. Outcast .- Chapter IV. War's end and the search for myself .- Chapter V. Climbing Mt. Olympics, or seven very strange years in my life .- Chapter VI. On the intelligentsia, its fate and responsibilities .- Chapter VII. Work, searchings, and a change in decor .- Chapter VIII. Spring of light .- Chapter IX. On God, philosophy, and science .- Chapter X. My "nuclear winter" epic and subsequent retirement .- Chapter XI. My agricultural career .- Chapter XII. A "golden age" or thoughts on the origins of communism .- Chapter XIII. Russia's twilight: dawn or dusk? .- Chapter XIV. The year 1993 .- Epilogue .- Chapter XV. Henceforth life will have to be lived differently .- Chapter XVI. Through the 1990s .- Chapter XVII. The Nineteen-nineties .- Appendix. MILESTONES-2000. Remarks on the Russian intelligentsia on the eve of a new century.

Author: Robert G. Burns, Nikita N. Moiseev
ISBN-10: 303096650X
ISBN-13: 9783030966508
Publisher: Birkhauser
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2022
Pages: 391
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.67lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d