2 A Crisis in Mathematics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Storming a Monastery 7
6. 2 A Crisis in Mathematics 19
7. 3 The French Trio: Borel, Lebesgue, Baire 33
8. 4 The Russian Trio: Egorov, Luzin, Florensky 66
9. 5 Russian Mathematics and Mysticism 91
10. 6 The Legendary Lusitania 101
11. 7 Fates of the Russian Trio 125
12. 8 Lusitania and After 162
13. 9 The Human in Mathematics, Then and Now 188
14. APPENDIX Luzin’s Personal Archives 205
15. Notes 212
16. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 228
17. Index 231