Fall of Communism changed mathematics in US: New study

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 17:00 in Mathematics & Economics

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to U.S. institutions, and those scholars' differing areas of specialization have changed the way math is studied and taught in this country, according to new research by University of Notre Dame Economist Kirk Doran and a colleague from Harvard.

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