{"product_id":"how-far-it-is-to-robert-g-burns-9783030966508","title":"How Far It Is to Tomorrow...: Reflections of an Eminent Russian Applied Mathematician 1917-2000","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert G. Burns, Nikita N. Moiseev\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 303096650X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030966508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Birkhauser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d","brand":"Robert G. Burns","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44761239486719,"sku":"9783030966508","price":169.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0b2ccd1c-642e-4543-9b38-479a0379e2f9.jpg?v=1706680771","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-far-it-is-to-robert-g-burns-9783030966508","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}