mekh-mat

12 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 7 claims, 2 questions, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Can 1979 Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group Document No. 112 ('Discrimination against Jews entering the university') be located and read, to confirm it — not 'Intellectual Genocide' — is the true source of the Mekh-mat 47-vs-40 admission table?

capture promoted 2026-08-22 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
A 1981 CSCE Congressional survey, drawn from Lyudmila Alekseeva's own Moscow Helsinki Group materials, independently corroborates Document No. 112's subject as Jewish discrimination in Moscow University entrance exams

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-22 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
Kanevskii & Senderov's 1980 samizdat report 'Intellectual Genocide' survives only as a 2005 reconstructed English translation; the Russian original remains unpublished

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, mekh-mat
Intellectual Genocide's 1980 MFTI admission figures (53/39 non-Jewish, 32/4 Jewish) match A. Shen's 1994 reproduction of them exactly

claim budding Tier 1 2026-08-21 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
Intellectual Genocide's MIFI Group 1 admitted count (36) conflicts with Shen's 1994 table (26); the primary document's own internal arithmetic favors its own 36

claim budding Tier 1 2026-08-21 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
The Mekh-mat 47-vs-40 admission table is not contained in 'Intellectual Genocide' (1980); its likelier documentary origin is the 1979 Moscow Helsinki Group's Document No. 112

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-21 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
Deniable by design — how Mekh-mat's entrance-exam discrimination was engineered to leave no basis for appeal, and why the case for it rests on convergent testimony rather than the one number everyone quotes

topic map 2026-08-21 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
Can 1979 Moscow Helsinki Monitoring Group Document No. 112 ('Discrimination against Jews entering the university') be located and read, to confirm it — not 'Intellectual Genocide' — is the true source of the Mekh-mat 47-vs-40 admission table?

question open 2026-08-21 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, mekh-mat
Do primary/scholarly sources confirm that Mekh-mat's 'coffin problems' were deliberately unsolvable problems used to fail Jewish applicants?

capture promoted 2026-08-20 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
Tanya Khovanova's 1975 Soviet Olympiad team was recruited to solve a collected list of Mekh-mat 'coffin problems' for coaching Jewish applicants

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-20 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
Mark Saul's 1999 Notices of the AMS account narrates Edward Frenkel's 1984 Mekh-mat rejection in detail, including a referral to the 'Kerosinka' institute

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-20 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, institutions
Can B.I. Kanevskii & V.A. Senderov's 1980 samizdat report 'Intellectual Genocide' be located and read directly, to verify the Mekh-mat/MIFI/MFTI admission-rate figures Shen reproduces?

question open 2026-08-20 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, mekh-mat