Bella Subbotovskaya

Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya (b. 1938[1] - d. 23 September 1982) was a Soviet mathematician who founded the short-lived Jewish People's University (1978–1983) in Moscow.[2][3] The school's purpose was to offer free education to those affected by structured anti-Semitism within the Soviet educational system. Its existence was outside Soviet authority and it was investigated by the KGB. Subbotovskaya herself was interrogated a number of times by the KGB and shortly thereafter was hit by a truck and died, in what has been speculated as a assassination.[2][4]

References

  1. "Remembering Math Heroine Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya". Math in the News. Mathematical Association of America. 12 November 2007. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  2. 1 2 Szpiro, G. (2007) Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya and the Jewish People's University, NAMS 54(10), 1326–1330.
  3. Zelevinsky, A. (2005) "Remembering Bella Abramovna" in You Failed Your Math Test Comrade Einstein (M. Shifman, ed.), World Scientific, 191–195.
  4. http://www.asianscientist.com/books/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/5791_chap3.pdf
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