You failed your math test, comrade Einstein. Adventures and misadventures of young mathematicians or test your skills in almost recreational mathematics (WS, with an Epilogue added) M

Front cover......Page 1 From the editor by M. Shifman......Page 5 Part 1......Page 20 Mekh-mat entrance examinations problems by I.Vardi......Page 22 Solutions to the year 2000 mathematical olympiad by I.Vardi......Page 96 My Role as an Outsider. Ilan Vardi's epilogue......Page 122 Part 2......Page 126 Intellectual Genocide by B.Kanevsky and V.Senderov......Page 129 Remarks by I.Vardi......Page 153 Science and Totalitarianism by A.Vershik......Page 162 Admission to the Mathematics Departments in Russia in the 1970s and 1980s by A.Vershik......Page 171 Entrance Examination to the Mekhmat by A.Shen......Page 176 Part 3......Page 188 Free Education at the Highest Price by K.Tylevich......Page 190 Jewish University by D.Fuchs......Page 200 Remembering Bella Abramovna by A.Zelevinsky......Page 208 Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya by I.Muchnik......Page 214 Back cover......Page 229 Through the prizm of time — angles of reflection. Epilogue to “Comrade Einstein”......Page 230