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2023 year marks the hundredth birth anniversary of prominent Russian mathematician and thinker Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich (1923-2017). The article presents a selection of quotations from various works of him, devoted to the future of…
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Leopold Halpern, who was a close associate of both Erwin Schroedinger and Paul Dirac before making his own mark as a theoretical physicist of the first rank, died in Tallahassee, Florida on 3 June 2006 after a valiant struggle with cancer.…
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