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This book offers a series of technical essays on the golden age of mathematics education in Russia, from the 1960s through the 1970s, and the challenging decades that followed. It examines two remarkable educational institutions of the era: the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty (Mekhmat) of Moscow University and the “Konstantinov System,” an unusual public structure that operated in supplementary education and Moscow’s mathematical schools.
The essays analyze both the professional community’s mistakes and external factors that led to a gradual degradation of standards—insights relevant to understanding today’s problems. A major section is devoted to the Kolmogorov reform of the 1970s, a radical attempt to expand the school mathematics curriculum, covering its history, reformers’ miscalculations, implementation efforts, and the subsequent counter-reformation. The book also addresses growing difficulties in teaching mathematics at technical universities from the late 1970s onward, and the crisis of mathematics entrance exams, which evolved into a separate subject that replaced actual mathematics in high school. An additional chapter explores the conflict between the Moscow mathematical community and authorities, beginning in 1968–69, and a supplement covers the successful push for quality textbooks in 1936–37.
