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This is a brief overview of the so-called “case of Academician Luzin” as well as the mathematical and humanitarian roots of the affair.
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On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Original Russian Text © S.S. Kutateladze, 2007, published in Sibirskii Zhurnal Industrial’noi Matematiki, 2007, Vol. X, No. 2(30), pp. 85–92.
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Kutateladze, S.S. Roots of Luzin’s case. J. Appl. Ind. Math. 1, 261–267 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990478907030015
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