TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aleksandrov, A.D. (Ed.)
AU  - Kolmogorov, A.N.
AU  - Lavrent'ev, M.A.
AU  - Gould, S.H.
AU  - Hirsch, K.A.
AU  - Bartha, T.
TI  - Mathematics its contents, methods, and meaning, Vol.1
U1  - 510 ALE 
PY  - 1981///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Russian Mathematics
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Differential Equations
KW  - Geometry
N1  - Includes Index
N2  - Twenty prime subject areas in mathematics are treated in terms of their simple origins, and their sophisticated developments, in twenty chapters by eighteen outstanding Soviet mathematicians.

There is no work in English that compares with this major survey of mathematics. Twenty prime subject areas in mathematics are treated in terms of their simple origins, and their sophisticated developments, in twenty chapters by eighteen outstanding Soviet mathematicians. Each volume of the second edition has been amended to include the complete index to the set
ER  -