¬The beginnings of the Soviet encyclopedia.

Laurent Mazliak (1)

1 LPMA - Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires

In this paper we focus on the beginning of publication of the Large Soviet Encyclopedia, launched in 1925. We present the context of this launching and explain why it was tightly connected to the period of the New Economical Policy. In a last section, we examine four articles included in the first volumes of the encyclopedia and relative to randomness and probability, in order to illustrate some debates of the scientific scene in USSR during the 1920s.

Mots clés: National encyclopedia. USSR. New Economical Policy. History of probability theory. Foundations of Probability. Otto Schmidt. Arthur Bowley.

Domaines: Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]

Laurent Mazliak. ¬The beginnings of the Soviet encyclopedia. : Utopia and misery of mathematics in the political turmoils of the 1920s.. 2016. ⟨hal-01273774⟩