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Fascitiello Isabella

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arXiv2022

Thirty years after: insights on the cultural origins of Kolmogorov's 1954 theorem from a short conversation with Arnold

Among the impressive contributions of Andrej N. Kolmogorov's to mathematics in the 20th century, his 1954 invariant tori theorem is still little understood from a historical point of view [Dumas 2014]. Vladimir I. Arnold, who entered Moscow State University that same year and would became a student of Kolmogorov, 30 years after asked him about the origin of a research program to which Arnold himself gave a big contribution. In this paper we compare and put in historical and biographical context two different account's by Arnold on this conversation.

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arXiv2022

Andrej N. Kolmogorov's in front of the affaire Lysenko: an episode in mathematics and ideology in the 20th century

In this paper the context of the 1940 mathematical paper by Kolmogorov on Mendel's laws of genetics is considered, also thanks to a recent study by Stark and Seneta (2011). Kolmogorov's vision of the relationship between mathematics and science in the understanding of the natural world appears to have encouraged him in tacking part in the discussions around Mendelism in while Lysenko's position against it was becoming the only permissible for Soviet Union biologists.

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