Столл, Роберт Р. Множества. Логика. Аксиоматические теории / перевод с английского Ю. А. Гастева и И. Х. Шмаина ; под редакцией Ю. А. Шихановича.
Серия «Математическое просвещение».
Москва : Просвещение, 1968. 231 страница, с иллюстрациями ; увеличенный формат.
Твердый тканевый переплет. Суперобложка.
Переплет очень хороший: ткань чистая, без пятен. Суперобложка потрепанная: надрывы и утраты бумаги по краям и на корешке. Блок отличный: бумага чистая, текст полный.
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Stoll, Robert R. (Robert Roth, Oberlin College). Sets, Logic, and Axiomatic Theories / translated from the English by Yu. A. Gastev and I. Kh. Shmain ; edited by Yu. A. Shikhanovich.
Series: Mathematical Enlightenment.
Moscow : Prosveshchenie Publishing House, 1968. 231 pp., with illustrations ; increased format.
Hardcover, cloth. Original dust jacket present.
Boards very good: cloth clean and unmarked. Dust jacket good: tears and paper loss along the edges and spine. Text block fine: paper clean, text complete throughout.
The first and only Russian edition of Robert Roth Stoll's compact introduction to set theory, symbolic logic, and the axiomatic method, originally published by W. H. Freeman in its Golden Gate series of undergraduate mathematics texts. Stoll, a mathematician at Oberlin College, designed the book to bridge the gap between mathematics as computation and mathematics as the study of abstract structure, working through Cantorian set theory, propositional and predicate calculus, and the axiomatic construction of Boolean algebra in a single accessible volume. Its inclusion in the Soviet "Mathematical Enlightenment" series, aimed at teachers and advanced students, situates it within the broader Soviet program of popularizing modern axiomatic mathematics for a wide readership. The translation and editorial team give the volume an unusual afterlife of historical interest. Translator Yuri Alekseevich Gastev (1928-1993), himself a Gulag survivor and later a prominent dissident, was one of the era's principal conduits for Western mathematical logic into Russian, translating major works including Curry's Foundations of Mathematical Logic. Editor Yuri Alexandrovich Shikhanovich (1933-2011) was dismissed from Moscow State University that same year for signing a collective protest letter, and went on to a long tenure on the editorial board of the Chronicle of Current Events, the principal samizdat human-rights bulletin, later working closely with Andrei Sakharov. The pairing of these two figures on a routine Soviet mathematics-education title is a small but genuine artifact of the overlap between Soviet logical scholarship and the human-rights movement of the 1960s-1980s.