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| | RUSSIAN MATHEMATICIANS IN THE 20TH CENTURY |
 | | The editor, Professor Yakov Sinai, a distinguished Russian mathematician, has taken pains to select leading Russian mathematicians — such as Lyapunov, Luzin, Egorov, Kolmogorov, Pontryagin, Vinogradov, Sobolev, Petrovski and Krein — and their most important works. |
 | | One can, for example, find works of Lyapunov, which parallel those of Poincaré; and works of Luzin, whose analysis plays a very important role in the history of Russian mathematics; Kolmogorov has established the foundations of probability based on analysis. |
 | | The editor has tried to provide some parity and, at the same time, included papers that are of interest even today. |
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