Очерк истории топологического образования в Нижнем Новгороде

Чебышевский сборник. 2021. Т. 22. № 1. С. 447–459.

Polotovskiy G.

The history of the development of topological education in Nizhny Novgorod is described
— from the first lecture on topology for schoolchildren, given in 1939 by Professor A.G. Mayer,
to the present. The need for knowledge of topology for further research was first understood
in Nizhny Novgorod by representatives of the school of academician A.A. Andronov on the
theory of nonlinear oscillations and the qualitative theory of differential equations. An important
moment was organization by S.I. Alber in 1964 Gorky topological school, in which many
outstanding mathematicians took part (D.V. Anosov, M.L. Gromov, S.P. Novikov, Y.G. Sinai,
etc.) However, the specialist in real algebraic geometry, Professor D.A. Gudkov, became the
"motor" for introducing topology into the educational process. This activity took place in close
cooperation with Leningrad Professor V.A. Rokhlin and his students O.Ya. Viro and V.M.
Kharlamov.

Keywords: Nizhny Novgorod, Д.А. Гудков, topological education, A.G. Mayer, D.A. Gudkov, V.A. Rokhlin, топологическое образование, А.Г. Майер, В.А. Рохлин, S.I. Alber, С.И. Альбер, Нижний Новгород,