The Fifth problem: Math and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union

Re:The Fifth problem: Math and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet U... by ommunist on Thursday January 02, 2014 @12:37PM (#7000815)

I shall tell you one name - Landau.

The "fifth line" was not a problem. What is a problem is when russian jew with Soviet M Sc in maths goes through NARIC in the UK, he gets B Sc only. It is the West who is discriminating Soviet degrees.

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Re:The Fifth problem: Math and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet U... by cema on Thursday January 02, 2014 @02:08PM (#7001469)

Oh please. Nobody discriminated against my degree from Kerosinka, the 5-year course of classes was admitted as equivalent of MS in Applied Math. There is discrimination, in a very certain way, against medical degrees, for a variety of reasons, some are good reasons, some not; that seems to be an exception.

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Re:The Fifth problem: Math and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet U... by ommunist on Thursday January 02, 2014 @02:53PM (#7001808)

Oh man, you trapped. There was a special research about disproportionally high level of Jewish students and graduates in Kerosinka. http://kerosinka.livejournal.com/1633.html

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Re:The Fifth problem: Math and Anti-Semitism in the Soviet U... by cema on Thursday January 02, 2014 @10:40PM (#7004013)

Do you even understand what I said? The conversation was about (alleged) discrimination against Soviet education in Western countries. I said I graduated from Kerosinka and was not discriminated against (in the US), on the contrary, my 5-year course of education was counted (in the US) in as an equivalent of an MS degree in Applied Math. Don't play a fool.

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