Case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin [Kõva köide]

It is wonderful to have this book available in English translation. The Case of Academician Luzin is a highly significant event in the history of Soviet mathematics; with its presentation of original sources, together with ample commentary, this book will now convey the full import of this event to a new readership." - Christopher Hollings, Oxford University, author of Mathematics across the Iron Curtain

"The translation into English of The Case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin is an important contribution toward the understanding of the fate of a great mathematician in Stalin's time. We learn here the details of how he was judged in a political trial. I would like to immodestly suggest that reading this source together with Jean-Michel Kantor's and my recent book Naming Infinity will clarify an episode in both the history of mathematics and of the Soviet Union that has long mystified observers." - Loren Graham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, MIT and Harvard

"Included within its 363 pages is an outline of the innovatory nature of Russian mathematics in the first 30 years of the 20th century. The core of the book consists of the minutes of the meetings of the five-day hearing during which Luzin was virtually fighting for his life. Indeed, the wealth of documentary evidence provided by the authors creates the impression that they have left no stone unturned in their quest to reveal the awful machinations that beset Nikolai Luzin in 1936. Read all about it in this gripping account of a wrongly persecuted mathematician." - P. N. Ruane, MAA Reviews