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soviet-union

34 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 19 claims, 7 questions, 7 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.

• Does the 1978 ICM memorandum 'The Situation in Soviet Mathematics' name Pontryagin specifically as a target of the proposed academic-exchange boycott?
  capture promoted 2026-10-31 · pontryagin, antisemitism, soviet-union, history-of-mathematics, verification
• The one located description of the 1978 ICM memo's content frames its discrimination accusation collectively, naming no individual Soviet mathematician as a target
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-10-31 · pontryagin, antisemitism, soviet-union, history-of-mathematics, verification
• Olli Lehto's institutional history of the 1978 Helsinki ICM, which covers the discrimination controversy in detail, does not mention the fifteen-signer 'Situation in Soviet Mathematics' memorandum
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · pontryagin, antisemitism, soviet-union, history-of-mathematics, verification
• No source located in a dedicated search confirms or denies that the 1978 ICM memorandum 'The Situation in Soviet Mathematics' names Pontryagin individually
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-10-31 · pontryagin, antisemitism, soviet-union, history-of-mathematics, verification
• Novikov's memoir describes a separate, individually-addressed 'antipontryagin letter' and Pontryagin's reply to it, shown to him by Martin Kruskal in Kiev in September 1979 — not the same document as the 1978 ICM memorandum
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-31 · pontryagin, antisemitism, soviet-union, history-of-mathematics, verification
• Did Pontryagin's antisemitism and Soviet gatekeeping reputation shape the West's reception of his 1956 maximum principle?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-30 · pontryagin, optimal-control, maximum-principle, antisemitism, soviet-union
• No source located connects Pontryagin's antisemitism or Soviet gatekeeping reputation to the Western citation or reception of his own control-theory work, in either direction
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-30 · pontryagin, antisemitism, soviet-union, citation-history, history-of-science
• Pontryagin's own communist orthodoxy, not Western antipathy toward him, limited the maximum principle's domestic Soviet economic uptake
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-30 · pontryagin, optimal-control, maximum-principle, soviet-union, economics
• Does the 1978 ICM memorandum 'The Situation in Soviet Mathematics' name Pontryagin specifically as a target of the proposed academic-exchange boycott?
  question open 2026-10-30 · pontryagin, antisemitism, soviet-union, history-of-mathematics, verification
• The Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy is the direct institutional ancestor of the Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-09-18 · cold-war-science, missile-science, institutional-history, soviet-union
• Does Olli Lehto's Mathematics Without Borders, read directly, confirm the Paris 1978 luncheon quote attributing 'second-rate mathematician' to Pontryagin?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-25 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, fields-medal, institutions
• Lehto reports an unnamed Soviet academician's account that a board of mathematicians, not state authorities, recommended against Margulis's travel permit
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-25 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, fields-medal, institutions
• A November 1979 Moscow protocol, signed by Vinogradov and Olech, records Vinogradov and Pontryagin accusing IMU consultative committees of being influenced by 'Zionist' propaganda
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-25 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, fields-medal, institutions
• What title did K. Chandrasekharan hold when he overruled Pontryagin at the May 1978 Paris IMU Executive Committee luncheon?
  question answered 2026-08-25 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, fields-medal, institutions, verification
• Does Novikov's memoir (and independent sources) confirm Pontryagin's role in blocking Margulis's 1978 Fields Medal travel and the '1/24' reply, verbatim?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-08-24 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, fields-medal, institutions
• Margulis's exclusion from the 1978 ICM Fields Medal ceremony, and Jacques Tits's public lament, are confirmed independently of Novikov's memoir
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-24 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, fields-medal, institutions
• Pontryagin personally opposed Margulis's 1978 Fields Medal at the IMU Executive Committee level — a mechanism distinct from the Soviet National Committee travel vote
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-24 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, fields-medal, institutions
• Does Olli Lehto's Mathematics Without Borders, read directly, confirm the Paris 1978 luncheon quote attributing 'second-rate mathematician' to Pontryagin?
  question answered 2026-08-24 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, fields-medal, verification
• 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
• Lev Pontryagin used his seat on the Soviet National Committee of Mathematicians to help bar Grigory Margulis from traveling to the 1978 ICM to receive his Fields Medal
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, fields-medal, institutions
• Do primary/scholarly sources confirm that Mekh-mat's 'coffin problems' were deliberately unsolvable problems used to fail Jewish applicants?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, verification
• Does Novikov's memoir (and independent sources) confirm Pontryagin's role in blocking Margulis's 1978 Fields Medal travel and the '1/24' reply, verbatim?
  question open 2026-07-11 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, fields-medal, verification
• Pontryagin — celebrated in the vault for doing topology blind — also used his Academy seat to help block Grigory Margulis's 1978 Fields Medal travel
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-09 · history-of-mathematics, soviet-union, antisemitism, academia, fields-medal