Mark Saul

Mathematician and editor, author of "Kerosinka: An Episode in the History of Soviet Mathematics" (Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 46, no. 10, November 1999). A secondary account built on named interviews (acknowledging Edward Frenkel, Dmitri Fuchs, and I.M. Gelfand among others) and direct citation of A. Shen and A. Vershik. Narrates in detail Edward Frenkel's 1984 Mekh-mat entrance-exam rejection and his referral to the "Kerosinka" — one of several Soviet institutes that absorbed mathematically talented students excluded from Mekh-mat.

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