---
title: "Slava Gerovitch"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Slava Gerovitch"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-10-31T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["antisemitism in Soviet mathematics","Eugene Dynkin","ICM 1978 Helsinki","Lev Pontryagin"]
---


Historian of science at MIT, specializing in the history of Soviet
mathematics, cybernetics, and computing, and author of a body of work
drawing on archival research and oral-history interviews with Soviet-era
émigré mathematicians.

Matters to this vault as the sole located source, as of this writing, for
the content of the 1978 ICM memorandum "The Situation in Soviet
Mathematics": his 2025 Princeton lecture abstract, drawing on
[[entity-eugene-dynkin|Eugene Dynkin]]'s papers and roughly 100 oral
interviews, is the only available secondhand description of what the
memo said — and the researcher whose future publication would most
likely resolve
[[question-verify-1978-icm-memorandum-names-pontryagin-as-boycott-target]].

## References
- [[claim-gerovitch-abstract-frames-1978-icm-memo-discrimination-charge-collectively]]