This collection of papers ranges over several areas of research, including matrix theory, group theory, functional analysis, Morse theory, global analysis, and probability theory.

Table of Contents

• B. I. Zil'ber -- Groups and rings whose theory is categorical
• V. P. Shchedrik -- On the separation of a real linear monic factor from a matrix polynomial
• Ya. G. Berkovich -- Subgroups of symmetric and alternating groups
• Ya. G. Berkovich -- A generalization of Burnside's second theorem on $p,q$-groups
• Ya. G. Berkovich and B. M. Pogrebinskiĭ -- Finite groups of large degree
• N. A. Vavilov -- Maximal subgroups of Chevalley groups containing a maximal split torus
• V. A. Tolokonnikov -- The corona theorem in algebras of bounded analytic functions
• L. G. Khanin -- The structure of closed ideals in some algebras of smooth functions
• V. V. Sharko -- $K$-theory and Morse theory. I
• V. V. Sharko -- $K$-theory and Morse theory. II
• V. Z. Grines -- Diffeomorphisms of two-dimensional manifolds with transitive foliations
• V. S. Afraĭmovich and L. P. Shil'nikov -- Invariant two-dimensional tori, their breakdown and stochasticity
• I. Ya. Novikov and O. P. Skachkova -- Stable random variables and convexity of Banach function spaces