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Matematicheskii Sbornik in the context of Russian history: a celebration of the 150th anniversary of its launch. (English. Russian original) Zbl 1403.01016

Sb. Math. 209, No. 7, 1089-1106 (2018); translation from Mat. Sb. 209, No. 7, 178-196 (2018).
The authors tell the story of the journal Matematicheskii Sbornik since its founding in 1864 until the last of 10 anniversary volumes in 2018, celebrating its 150 years of uninterrupted existence. The journal was founded in connection with the then arising Moscow Mathematical Society to publish papers presented to the Society and, more generally, to promote mathematical research and mathematical culture in Russia – the goal kept to this day. Major influence upon its eventual shape has exerted Egorov, its editor-in-chief in 1906–1929 and one of the founders of the Moscow mathematical school. The journal published many important papers of that school and became really international by accepting, since 1911, papers in foreign languages. The oncoming years, however, were difficult (World War I, civil war in Russia, Bolshevik regime). In the 1920s, “Luzitania” (the core of the Moscow school) has begun to split but its members were among founders of the nascent Soviet school of mathematics. In 1930, Egorov was arrested (and soon died) and Soviet mathematics entered a period of isolation but the journal continued to exist, largely preserving Egorov’s line. Soviet mathematics became then a world in itself but it could not be neglected by the world outside. An evidence of the high meaning of Matematicheskii Sbornik came in 1967 when there appeared its English translation edition, continued to this day.
The decades 1960s and 1970s were the time when the Soviet school flourished and Matematicheskii Sbornik gave an important testimony to that. Then, there came a decline but the journal has been surviving, maintaining high standards of academic excellence and keeping high position in the current competitive world.

MSC:

01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century
01A55 History of mathematics in the 19th century
01A61 History of mathematics in the 21st century
01A72 Schools of mathematics

Biographic References:

Egorov, Dmitri
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