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Groups of finite Morley rank with a generically multiply transitive action on an abelian group
Ayşe Berkman, Alexandre Borovik
We investigate the configuration where a group of finite Morley rank acts definably and generically -transitively on an elementary abelian -group of Morley rank , where $p…
Mathematics education policy as a high stakes political struggle: The case of Soviet Russia of the 1930s
Alexandre V. Borovik, Serguei D. Karakozov, Serguei A. Polikarpov
This paper is an introduction to our ongoing more comprehensive work on a critically important period in the history of Russian mathematics education; it provides a glimpse into th…
A mathematician's view of the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology
Alexandre Borovik
This paper discusses, from a mathematician's point of view, the thesis formulated by Israel Gelfand, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, and one of the pioneers…
A view from lockdown: mathematics discovered, invented, and inherited
Alexandre Borovik
The classical platonist / formalist dilemma in philosophy of mathematics can be expressed in lay terms as a deceptively naive question: \emph{Is new mathematics discovered or inven…