Kvant Selecta: Algebra and Analysis, II
[For a review of Vol. I, see Zbl 0960.00004 above.] This is the second collection of articles that have previously appeared in the Russian popular journal Kvant. The works selected for this volume come from algebra and analysis and their applications to geometry and mechanics. One of my favorite papers, by Yuri Matiyasevich, is dedicated to formulas for prime numbers. The slate of the authors is most impressive: it includes V. I. Arnold, D. B. Fuchs, S. Tabachnikov (who is also the editor of this book), F. V. Vainshtein, V. N. Vaguten, N. B. Vasiliev (Editor of Kvant's Problem Department), and others. It is most impressive and commendable that these ``serious mathematicians went out of their way to make their sophisticated material understandable by a broad readership, that includes not only professional mathematicians, but first of all gifted high school students and their teachers, and lay enthusiasts of mathematics. This book inherits Kvant's broad audience, which would find this book a welcome edition to mathematics literature where rigor co-exists with fun and accessibility. The reviewer full-heartedly supports the book editor's call on the American Mathematical Society to publish translation of the Kvant's Problem Department. Late Nikolai Vasiliev's fine taste and high standards produced one of the world's great and original problem collections.
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