Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дани́лович Алекса́ндров, alternative transliterations: Alexandr or Alexander (first name), and Alexandrov (last name)) (4 August 1912 – 27 July 1999) was a Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and mountaineer. (Wikipedia).
My husband was a KGB agent - BBC REEL
Since 2012, Nobel prize writer Svetlana Alexievich has interviewed hundreds of people in Russia for her upcoming book about love. In this excerpt, Alexevich speaks with a psychologist who describes her life under surveillance after she married a KGB agent. Excerpt from the film Lyubov -
From playlist Reel History
Lenin & Trotsky - Their Rise To Power I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?
Felshtinsky, Yuri: Lenin, Trotsky, Germany and the Treaty of Brest- Ltivosk. The Collapse of the World Revolution. November 1917- November 1918, Milford 2012: http://amzn.to/2oILHmK Swain, Geoffrey: Trotsky and the Russian Revolution. New York 2014: http://amzn.to/2CY0gqF Swain, Geoffre
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Борис Н. Петров - Boris N. Petrov: Space Pioneer, Automatic Control Engineer(USSR)
The life of automatic control engineer Boris N. Petrov, a pioneer of the Russian space program. Борис Н. Петров Solved automatic control issues in rockets and ballistic missiles, He published many papers on control science with Vladislav Rutkovsky who narrates the story of his life. Leade
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François Petit (6/22/20): Ephemeral persistence modules and distance comparison
Title: Ephemeral persistence modules and distance comparison Abstract: Sheaf theoretic methods have been recently introduced to study persistent modules. Persistence homology studies filtered or multi-filtered topological spaces. The filtrations are indexed by the elements of an ordered
From playlist ATMCS/AATRN 2020
Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev: The Current State of Ukraine’s Government
Yuriy Sergeyev is a former Ukrainian diplomat and politician, who has served as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. He is here at Yale as a visiting fellow in the Council on European Studies at the MacMillan Center. Episode April 20, 2016
From playlist The MacMillan Report
Gagarin the first man in space died in a plane crash. See here footage from his funeral in 1968. No title. Funeral of Russian spaceman / cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Moscow (USSR, Soviet Union). L/S crowds queuing up outside Central House of the Soviet Army to file past urns of ashes of Yu
From playlist FUNERALS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Союз - Аполлон / Space: Apollo-Soyuz Leader Boris Petrov
Control engineer Boris N. Petrov was the leader on the Russian side of the Apollo-Soyuz Program 1975. His work included solving fuel consumption problems for rockets and a myriad of other technical issues. The Edison Tech Center interviewed Vladislav Rutkovsky - living pioneer in Russian
From playlist Russian Engineering
Discrete Isometry Group of Higher Rank Symmetric Spaces (Lecture - 01) by Misha Kapovich
Geometry, Groups and Dynamics (GGD) - 2017 DATE: 06 November 2017 to 24 November 2017 VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bengaluru The program focuses on geometry, dynamical systems and group actions. Topics are chosen to cover the modern aspects of these areas in which research has b
From playlist Geometry, Groups and Dynamics (GGD) - 2017
Leonid Volkov: Russian Politics and Strategy of the Russian Opposition
Leonid Volkov, 2018 Yale World Fellow and chief of staff for Alexey Navalny — 2010 Yale World Fellow and the leader of the Russian opposition — reflects on the state-of-the-art and nearest future of Russian politics. He addresses questions pertaining to the challenges faced by President Pu
From playlist The MacMillan Center
Grigori Perelman proved the Poincare conjecture and then refused a million dollar prize (the Millennium Prize). He is the only mathematician who has declined the Fields medal. The subtitles were made by volunteers and are not part of the documentary. In case you need them as a separate fi
From playlist Mathematics
On minimizers and critical points for anisotropic isoperimetric problems - Robin Neumayer
Variational Methods in Geometry Seminar Topic: On minimizers and critical points for anisotropic isoperimetric problems Speaker: Robin Neumayer Affiliation: Member, School of Mathematics Date: February 19, 2019 For more video please visit http://video.ias.edu
From playlist Variational Methods in Geometry
Setting up a Galaxy instance as a service, 20160626
Galaxy Community Conference 2016, Indiana University - Bloomington | https://gcc2016.iu.edu/ https://gcc16.sched.com/event/3d4e9261a11cba13549c3a0771e11a65# This session will use a virtual machine image. Please download the image from here or here or here before GCC2016 starts. The ima
From playlist 2016 Galaxy User Community Conference (GCC16)
The Scalar Field Propagator on a Causal Set by Sumati Surya
Bangalore Area String Meeting URL: http://www.icts.res.in/discussion_meeting/BASM2016/ DATES: Monday 25 Jul, 2016 - Wednesday 27 Jul, 2016 VENUE : Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bangalore DESCRIPTION: This meeting is designed to bring together string theorists working in the Bangalore
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Tchaikovsky - Slavonic March, for orchestra, Op. 31
Tchaikovsky Festival Adrian Leaper
From playlist Brilliant Music
Paulus (1890 - 1957) - Der Feldmarschall und das Trauma Stalingrad
Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957) war ein deutscher Heeresführer und während der Schlacht um Stalingrad der Oberbefehlshaber der 6.Armee. Finden Sie hier interessante Videos: https://goo.gl/p3f88A Abonniere chronoshistory: http://goo.gl/IVGjVB Paulus kämpfte schon im ersten Weltkrieg und st
From playlist Die Befreiung von Auschwitz
Alexander Polyakov - Out of equilibrium
Alexander Polyakov (Princeton Univ.) Out of equilibrium
From playlist Conférence à la mémoire de Vadim Knizhnik
Urysohn widths mod p - Aleksandr Berdnikov
Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members Topic: Urysohn widths mod p Speaker: Aleksandr Berdnikov Affiliation: Member, School of Mathematics Date: September 20, 2022
From playlist Mathematics
History vs. Vladimir Lenin - Alex Gendler
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/history-vs-vladimir-lenin-alex-gendler Vladimir Lenin overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas II and founded the Soviet Union, forever changing the course of Russian politics. But was he a hero who toppled an oppressive tyranny or a villain who replaced
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Are a line and a square the same shape? | Introduction to Topology #SoME2
Is a line really different than a square? Watch the video to find out! In this video, you will learn exactly what topology is all about through dimension! This video was created for the 2022 Summer of Math Exposition. 00:00 Introduction: Is a Line Equal to a Square? 1:22 The Dimension
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