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The Case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin
About this Title
Sergei S. Demidov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Boris V. Lëvshin, Editors. Translated by Roger Cooke
Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year:
2016; Volume 43
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-2608-8 (print); 978-1-4704-2936-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/043
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
Minutes of the meetings of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the case of academician Luzin
Commentaries on the minutes of the meetings of the USSR Academy of Sciences Commission in the case of academician Luzin
- Introduction to commentaries
- Commentary, 7 July 1936
- Commentary, 9 July 1936
- Commentary, 11 July 1936
- Commentary, 13 July 1936
- Commentary, 15 July 1936
- Literature
Appendices
- Introduction to appendices
- A pleasant disillusionment
- Reply to academician N. Luzin
- Enemies wearing a Soviet mask
- Letter from L. Z. Mekhlis, editor of Pravda, to the Central Committee, 3 July 1936
- Resolution concerning the articles “Response to academician Luzin” and “Enemies wearing a Soviet mask” in Pravda
- Draft of the proposal of the special session of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 4 July 1936
- Letter from P. L. Kapitsa to Molotov, 6 July 1936
- Excerpt from the minutes of the Presidum meeting of 7 July 1936
- Letters from V. I. Vernadskii and N. V. Nasonov to the Academy of Sciences Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences and to academicians A. E. Fersman and N. P. Gorbunov in support of academician Luzin
- Letter from academician N. N. Luzin to the Central Committee of the Communist Party 7 July 1936
- Traditions of servility
- Resolution of the General Assembly of Scientists of the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics and Institutes of Mathematics, Mechanics, and Astronomy at Moscow University
- Letter from Luzin to an undetermined addressee, 11 July 1936
- Enemies wearing a Soviet mask
- The Leningrad scholars respond
- Letter from L. Z. Mekhlis, editor of Pravda, to Stalin and Molotov, 14 July 1936
- The enemy exposed
- Luzin’s statement to the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences, 14 July 1936
- Academician Gubkin on so-called academician Luzin
- The Belarus scholars on the exposed enemy Luzin
- The scholarly community condemns enemies wearing a Soviet mask
- Note accompanying the draft of the findings of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences regarding academician N. N. Luzin, 25 July 1936
- Conclusion of the Commission
- On academician N. N. Luzin. Findings of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 5 August 1936
- To rid academia of Luzinism
- Glossary of Soviet terms and people