Antisemitism in Soviet mathematics

Jews studying or working in the field of mathematics in the Soviet Union faced hostility, prejudice and discrimination. Numerous testimonies from the second half of the 1960s to the late 1980s say that Jewish mathematicians were discriminated against when entering universities, postgraduate studies and work; defending their dissertations; trying to publish articles or books; and traveling to scientific conferences and abroad.

Academics Ivan Vinogradov, Lev Pontryagin and a number of others, who for a long time led and determined policy in Soviet mathematics, were accused by contemporaries of carrying out antisemitic policies. This has caused several international scandals. Pontryagin himself denied these accusations.

Discrimination was often described as one of the reasons for the mass emigration of Jewish mathematicians from the USSR.

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