Differential Equations of My Young Years (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Foreword.- The beginning.- The time of peace is over.- My mother's story.- My father's story.- In Sverdlovsk.- Back to Leningrad.- Crime without punishment.- Even the sun has spots.- It is so difficult to become an "A" student.- The importance of being an "A" student.- Slingshots.- Illnesses.- "Physcult" and sports.- A sharp kid.- Foreign languages.- My interests.- Poetry.- Fimka.- The first place in the District!.- The indecent topic.- My circle of reading.- I chose mathematics.- A circle at the Palace of Pioneers.- Two lectures for the school teachers.- The English teacher.- Arkady Alexeev.- Alexeev's story.- Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.-You cannot live without the women. No!.- The first Mathmech year.- Student contests.- We lead our life in major key.- A mysterious ID.- Musical moments.- Valery Maisky.- The authorities did not like me.- How did I not become a dissident.- Misha Danilov.- Fractional derivatives.- Student Scientific Society (SSS) and Tseitin.- "Quasi-publication" and S. M. Lozinsky.- The Mathmech choir.- My doubts and S. G. Mikhlin's advice.- A few words about Mikhlin The virgin soil.- Bakelman's special course.- Job placement.- Siegfried.- Steel sheets and YMS.- Possibility and reality.- Defense at the Moscow State University.- Defense at the Leningrad University.- About V.I. Smirnov.- An order: scatter the composed type.- About the "Big Seminar".- After the defense of the Doctor's degree dissertation.- Non-travels to foreign countries.- Counterexamples to the Hilbert problem.- Talent.- Farewell, my young years!.- Under close surveillance?.