L.I. Mandelstam and His School in Physics
This biography of the famous Soviet physicist Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (1889–1944), who became a Professor at Moscow State University in 1925 and an Academician (the highest scientific title in the USSR) in 1929, describes his contributions to both ph
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L.I. Mandelstam and His School in Physics Second Edition
L.I. Mandelstam and His School in Physics
Alexander Pechenkin
L.I. Mandelstam and His School in Physics Second Edition
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Alexander Pechenkin School of Philosophy Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russia S. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia
ISBN 978-3-030-17684-6 ISBN 978-3-030-17685-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17685-3
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Preface to the Second Edition
The first edition of this book appeared five years ago. What remarkable works have appeared in the literature about the history of Soviet (and Russian) science over this period? It is worth pointing to the book which is directly connected with the subject matter of the present book: “Sergei Mikhailovich Rytov. Life story, recollections, interviews, notes, verses, documents” (composed by E. Berezanskaysa and N. Rytova, Moscow, 2015). S. Rytov is one of Mandelstam’s disciples of the second generation. It is also worth mentioning V.V. Kudriavtsev’s Dr.Sci. thesis “Scientific Schools in Russian Radiophysics” (2018). The main conceptual context which is present in the above books is connected with the concept of a scientific school which is emphasized in the present book, too. It should be pointed out that the second edition is also engaged in a number philosophical problems: what is probability in theoretical physics, what kind interpretation of quantum mechanics was popular in the USSR, how the philosophical discussions entered into th
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