Volume
11
Issue
3
Abstract
At Moscow State University’s Department of Mathematics during the 1970’s and 1980’s, there was rampant discrimination against Jewish and other unwanted students. The professors at the math department made a strong effort to keep Jewish students out of the department. They designed "killer" or "coffin" problems and Jewish students had to answer them during an oral exam. These problems have simple solutions, but require a clever strategy to solve them. This paper explores some of the context of this episode and provides several problems with detailed solutions.
First Page
649
Last Page
664
Recommended Citation
Egenhoff, Jay
(2014)
"Math as a tool of anti-semitism,"
The Mathematics Enthusiast: Vol. 11
:
No.
3
, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1320
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/tme/vol11/iss3/11
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.54870/1551-3440.1320
