How Far It Is to Tomorrow Reflections of an Eminent Russian Applied Mathematician 1917 2000 by Nikita N Moiseev 9783030966515 3030966518

How Far It Is to Tomorrow Reflections of an Eminent Russian Applied Mathematician 1917 2000 Nikita N Moiseev – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030966515, 3030966518

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 3030966518
• ISBN 13: 9783030966515
• Author: Nikita N Moiseev

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.

Table contents:

1. On a Knife Edge
2. A Few Really Happy Years
3. Outcast
4. War’s End and the Search for Myself
5. Climbing Mt. Olympus or Seven Very Strange Years in My Life
6. On the Intelligentsia, Its Fate and Responsibilities
7. Work, Searchings, and a Change of Decor
8. Spring of Light
9. On God, Philosophy, and Science
10. The “Nuclear Winter” Epic and My Subsequent Retirement
11. My Agricultural Career
12. A “Golden Age” or Thoughts on the Origins of Communism
13. Russia’s Twilight: Dawn or Dusk? Russia at the Crossroads
14. The Year 1993
15. Henceforth Life Will Have to be Lived Differently
16. Through the 1990s
17. The Nineteen-Nineties

People also search:

what time is it going to rain tomorrow morning

what time is it to rain tomorrow

a time of reflection meaning

tomorrow’s reflection

tomorrow’s reflection on the readings