Differential Equations of My Young Years

Vladimir Maz'ya (born 1937) is an outstanding mathematician who systematically made fundamental contributions to a wide array of areas in mathematical analysis and in the theory of partial differential equations. In this fascinating book he describes the first thirty years of his life in Lening...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maz'ya, Vladimir
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • The beginning
  • The time of peace is over
  • My mother’s story
  • My father’s story
  • In Sverdlovsk
  • Back to Leningrad
  • Crime without punishment
  • Even the sun has spots
  • It is so difficult to become an “A” student
  • The importance of being an “A” student
  • Slingshots
  • Illnesses
  • “Physcult” and sports
  • A sharp kid
  • Foreign languages
  • My interests
  • Poetry
  • Fimka
  • The first place in the District!
  • The indecent topic
  • My circle of reading
  • I chose mathematics
  • A circle at the Palace of Pioneers
  • Two lectures for the school teachers
  • The English teacher
  • Arkady Alexeev
  • Alexeev’s story
  • Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.-You cannot live without the women. No!
  • The first Mathmech year
  • Student contests
  • We lead our life in major key
  • A mysterious ID
  • Musical moments
  • Valery Maisky
  • The authorities did not like me
  • How did I not become a dissident
  • Misha Danilov
  • Fractional derivatives
  • Student Scientific Society (SSS) and Tseitin
  • “Quasi-publication” and S. M. Lozinsky
  • The Mathmech choir
  • My doubts and S. G. Mikhlin’s advice
  • A few words about Mikhlin The virgin soil
  • Bakelman’s special course
  • Job placement
  • Siegfried
  • Steel sheets and YMS
  • Possibility and reality
  • Defense at the Moscow State University
  • Defense at the Leningrad University
  • About V.I. Smirnov
  • An order: scatter the composed type
  • About the “Big Seminar”
  • After the defense of the Doctor’s degree dissertation
  • Non-travels to foreign countries
  • Counterexamples to the Hilbert problem
  • Talent
  • Farewell, my young years!
  • Under close surveillance?