Vladimir I. Arnold
Born
in Odessa, USSR
June 12, 1937
Died
June 03, 2010
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Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 60)
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published
1978
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13 editions
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Ordinary Differential Equations
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published
1978
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12 editions
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Catastrophe Theory
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published
1983
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17 editions
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Huygens & Barrow, Newton & Hooke
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published
1990
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6 editions
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Lectures on Partial Differential Equations
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published
2003
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12 editions
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Yesterday and Long Ago
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published
2006
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4 editions
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Математическое понимание природы
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published
2011
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2 editions
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Mathematical Understanding of Nature: Essays on Amazing Physical Phenomena and Their Understanding by Mathematicians
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published
2014
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5 editions
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Mathematical Aspects of Classical and Celestial Mechanics
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published
1993
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10 editions
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Topological Methods in Hydrodynamics (Applied Mathematical Sciences, 125)
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published
1998
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12 editions
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“At the beginning of this century a self-destructive democratic principle was advanced in mathematics (especially by Hilbert), according to which all axiom systems have equal right to be analyzed, and the value of a mathematical achievement is determined, not by its significance and usefulness as in other sciences, but by its difficulty alone, as in mountaineering. This principle quickly led mathematicians to break from physics and to separate from all other sciences. In the eyes of all normal people, they were transformed into a sinister priestly caste of a dying religion, like Druids, parasitic on science and technology, recruiting acolytes in the mathematical schools by Zombie-like mental subjection.”
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“In almost all textbooks, even the best, this principle is presented so that it is impossible to understand.’ (K. Jacobi, Lectures on Dynamics, 1842-1843). I have not chosen to break with tradition.”
― Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
― Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
“Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.”
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