Russia places great emphasis on education in subjects such as computer science, mathematics, and physics, and it has been said that many of the top hackers are from Russia. Mathematics and physics ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to US institutions, and those scholars' differing areas of specialization have changed the way math is studied and ...

Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a paper appearing in the Journal of Economic Literature, the historian of economics at ...

When I was growing up in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, I thought math was a stale, boring subject.1 I could solve all of the problems and ace all of the exams at school, but what we discussed in ...

Boris Yeltsin might not have served on any tenure committees, but he may have affected the productivity and careers of American mathematicians, study finds. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 8 (UPI) -- The 1992 collapse of the Soviet Union brought many Soviet mathematicians to U.S. institutions and changed how mathematics are taught and studied, a study shows.

Back in the seventies, the mathematics department at the Soviet Union’s Moscow State University (one of the most prestigious departments in the USSR at the time) used a special collection of math ...

It may be no accident that, while some of the best American mathematical minds worked to solve one of the century's hardest problems—the Poincaré Conjecture—it was a Russian mathematician working in ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to U.S. institutions, and those scholars' differing areas of specialization have changed the way math is studied and ...