Kvant (magazine)

Квант
Categories Physics, mathematics
First issue 1970
Country Russia
Language Russian

Kvant (Russian: Квант for "quantum") is a popular science magazine in physics and mathematics for school students and teachers, issued since 1970 in Soviet Union and continued in Russia. Translation of selected articles from Kvant had been published in Quantum Magazine in 1990–2001, which in turn had been translated and published in Greece in 1993–2001.[1]

History

Kvant was started as a joint project of the USSR Academy of Sciences and USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. In Soviet time, it was published by Nauka publisher with circulation about 200,000.

The idea of the magazine was introduced by Pyotr Kapitsa. Its first chief editors were physicist Isaak Kikoin and mathematician Andrei Kolmogorov. In 1985, its editorial board had 18 Academicians and Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences and USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, 14 Doctors of Sciences and 20 Candidates of Science.[2]

Availability

All published issues of Kvant are freely available online.[3]

Translations

Quantum Magazine

Main article: Quantum Magazine

Quantum Magazine was a US-based bimonthly magazine published by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) from 1990 to 2001. Some of its articles were translations from Kvant.

Kvant Selecta

In 1999, American Mathematical Society published translation of selected articles from Kvant on algebra and mathematical analysis as two volumes in the Mathematical World series.[4][5] Yet another volume, published in 2002, included translation of selected articles on combinatorics. [6]

Other translations

There were two books with selected articles from Kvant published in France.

References

  1. ↑ "Quantum (Greek)". Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ 15th anniversary of Kvant
  3. ↑ Kvant archive website
  4. ↑ Tabachnikov, Serge (1999). Kvant Selecta: Algebra and Analysis, I. Mathematical World 14. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-1002-6.
  5. ↑ Tabachnikov, Serge (1999). Kvant Selecta: Algebra and Analysis, II. Mathematical World 15. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-1915-9.
  6. ↑ Tabachnikov, Serge (2002). Kvant Selecta: Combinatorics, I. Mathematical World 17. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-2171-8.

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