Soviet Mathematics and Dialectics in the Post-Stalin Era: New Horizons

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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 155 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0315-0860
• DOI: 10.1006/hmat.2001.2329

✦ Synopsis

The post-Stalin period in Soviet history was a time of weakening of official ideological interference with the professional activity of the Soviet scientific community. Many branches of mathematics-particularly cybernetics, mathematical logic, and the foundations of mathematicsplayed an important role in the struggle against Stalinist ideological and philosophical dogmatism. The Soviet "constructivist" orientation in the foundations of mathematics expressed a conciliatory attitude toward intuitionism, logicism, and formalism, the main currents in Western mathematics. Dialectical materialism became more flexible, but it continued to be the only officially recognized philosophy in the Soviet Union. C 2002 Elsevier Science (USA)

Poslestalinskii ˇperiod v sovetskoi ˇistorii (1953-1991)-vrem postepennogo oslableni oficialbnogo ideologiqeskogo vmexatelbstva v iznb sovetskogo nauqnogo soobwestva. Mnogie vetvi matematiki-osobenno kibernetika, matematiqeska logika i osnovani matematiki-igrali va nu rolb v borbbe protiv stalinskogo ideologiqeskogo i filosofskogo dogmatizma. Sovetskii ˇ"konstruktivistskii ˇ'' podhod k osnovani m matematiki vyra als v primiritelbnom otnoxenii k intuicionizmu, logicizmu i formalizmu, glavnym teqeni m v zapadnoi ˇmatematike. Dialektiqeskii ˇmaterializm stal bolee gibkim, no ostavals edinstvennoi ˇoficialbno priznannoi ˇfilosofiei ˇv Sovetskom So ze. C 2002 Elsevier Science (USA) MSC 1991 subject classifications: 01A60, 01A72, 01A74, 01A80.