Memorials of Mathematicians in Moscow

Multifaceted Mathematicians

Murderers , Mathematicians ∗

This article outlines the history of our visualization of the interior of the human body. It throws some light on the emotional context and the underlying idea of man. In order of appearance on the historical stage, the leading characters are: painters, murderers (more precisely: executed persons including thieves driven merely by need, women with illegitimate children, etc.), and mathematician...

Math in Moscow

Mathematicians of Gaussian Elimination

G aussian elimination is universally known as “the” method for solving simultaneous linear equations. As Leonhard Euler remarked, it is the most natural way of proceeding (“der natürlichste Weg” [Euler, 1771, part 2, sec. 1, chap. 4, art. 45]). Because Gaussian elimination solves linear problems directly, it is an important technique in computational science and engineering, through which it ma...

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