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How Far It Is to Tomorrow... - Reflections of an Eminent Russian Applied Mathematician 1917-2000 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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How Far It Is to Tomorrow... - Reflections of an Eminent Russian Applied Mathematician 1917-2000 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This is a translated autobiography of applied mathematician N. N.
Moiseev, providing an insider's view of the history of the Soviet
Union from its founding in 1917 to its collapse in 1991, as well as
a little of the aftermath.We see vividly the precariousness of life
just after the October Revolution; his happy family life during the
years 1921-28 of Lenin's New Economic Policy; the subsequent
destruction of his family by Stalin's regime; his trials as a
social outcast; his student days at Moscow State University; his
experiences as a Soviet Air Force Engineer in World War II,
including sorties as a gunner and a brush with an NKVD agent;
post-war euphoria, marriage, and another round of ostracism; and
then the vicissitudes of a highly varied academic career. Here we
meet many famous Soviet and Western engineers and scientists. The
last several chapters are devoted more to wide-ranging reflections
on God, philosophy, science, communism, modelling the biosphere,
and the threat of nuclear winter. His thoughts concerning the
impending and then final collapse of the USSR, as well as hopes for
Russia's future, conclude the journey through Moiseev's life.
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