Draft:Zalman Skopets
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Zalman Skopets was a Latvian mathematician.
Born in 1917, he graduated from the university in Riga, with the languages of instruction being German and French. In 1941, at the outbreak of the war between Russia and Germany, he fled the advancing German army to Russia (Latvia was annexed by Russia in 1940, so, presumably by that time he was a Soviet citizen by the fact of annexation).[1]
He first worked as a schoolteacher, then managed to convince the Russian authorities that his Riga higher education diploma was equivalent to a Russian one, and got accepted to graduate studies at the Moscow University. He got his candidate degree (a Russian equivalent of PhD) in 1946, and afterwards worked until his death in 1984 at the Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute. He used to return regularly to his native Riga, where he lectured in Latvian. He supervised many candidate and doctor of science theses.[1]
Skopets made contributions to classical—Euclidean and non-Euclidean—geometry, and participated in Andrey Kolmogorov’s high school education reform.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Pasha Zusmanovich, "Mathematicians Going East," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 14 Issue 1 (January 2024), pages 114-167. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.EGCM7534. Page 136.
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