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Yesterday and Long Ago

By: Vladimir I. Arnold

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Hardcover | 11 October 2006

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History is not what we were wearing, It is how we had been utterly ruined. B.Pasternak."Spektorsky" In the spring of 1999 the police found me lying unconscious with a broken forehead next to my bike in the outskirts of Paris, and delivered me to a hospital. It took a few weeks for French doctors to bring me to consciousness. But I did not recognize my son and said about my wife: "this woman says that she is my wife". A doctor asked me how many years we had been married. I answered correctly, "twenty four", and the doctor wrote down: "arithmetical abilities are preserved". Later, French doctors told me that with such a trauma any Frenchman would succumb immediately. But then they added: "Russians are very tough so you should live several months more". In a Western textbook I had read regarding effects of poisons: "as for alcohol the lethal dose for Russians is several times higher". Perhaps the same applies to traumas.

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First recollections	p. 1
The North-West direction	p. 2
Vera Stepanovna Arnold (Zhitkova)	p. 4
First scientific recollections	p. 9
The Arnold family	p. 11
Home library	p. 23
The axiomatic method	p. 25
School years	p. 27
The color of a meridian	p. 30
It is difficult to keep a secret	p. 31
The temple of science	p. 34
The state exam on the principles of Marxism-Leninism	p. 37
Who did what	p. 39
Lavoisier and French mathematics during the Revolution	p. 40
Queen Eleanor, Rosamund, and labyrinth theory	p. 43
Place des Vosges	p. 48
Champel Zee	p. 52
Neutrinos, neutrons, and Bruno Pontecorvo	p. 54
How to distinguish good and bad mathematical works	p. 57
Plutarch's combinatorics	p. 59
The topology of surfaces according to Alexander of Macedonia	p. 61
Hunting for snakes	p. 62
The guillotine and Marie-Antoinette	p. 63
The torments of Damiens	p. 67
Queen Margot and the kingdom of legality	p. 68
Joan of Arc - a saint and a witch	p. 70
Ravailliac, French cuisine, and traffic jams	p. 73
Anna Yaroslavna	p. 75
Gennady of Novgorod and education of youth under Ivan III	p. 78
Catherine I and the Prut campaign	p. 79
Catherine II and I. I. Betskoy	p. 82
The Crimean war	p. 84
Dashkova and parachutes	p. 85
Profanation of a sacred object and abstract algebra	p. 87
Caesar and Gauls : the defence of Rome from the Germans	p. 89
France - Guinea - India	p. 90
Tamil tigers in the Swiss consulate in Paris	p. 91
A planning department	p. 92
Mountain lions over Stanford	p. 95
Hong Kong	p. 97
Brazil trips	p. 99
Leibniz as a precursor of Bourbaki	p. 101
The origins of mathematics : from Egypt to Greece	p. 104
The motivation for teaching mathematics in Israel	p. 109
The struggle with foreigners and their languages	p. 111
"Our Manchuria"	p. 112
From the history of the French economy	p. 113
Ramanujan and Hardy	p. 114
Picking up cranberries	p. 119
Tomography of the brain, geometry, and algebra	p. 122
Inedible hares	p. 124
How academicians were elected and how they were eliminated	p. 124
Weierstrass and Sophia Kovalevskaya	p. 130
Radischev	p. 137
Mandate ("Nakaz") of Catherine II	p. 142
Religion and science, Luther and anti-Semitism	p. 145
Galileo	p. 148
"Mistral" in the "Crown"	p. 154
Abel's theory and modern mathematics	p. 158
From Pareto to Arzamas	p. 163
Whether the moon will fall onto the Earth or not?	p. 168
The pike of Cambridge	p. 172
Pon'goma river and Solovki	p. 173
The Suputinsky nature reserve	p. 176
The Yamal peninsula and grubbing snow caves	p. 182
The Pocha river and a dog named Shnura	p. 185
Aksin'ino cemetery	p. 188
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