Boris V. Gnedenko and Georgy P. Boev: joint methodological activity

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The material tells about the long-term joint methodological activity of Academician Boris V. Gnedenko and professor G. P. Boev in the field of teaching mathematics (in particular, probability theory) at the physics and technology departments of universities. Their cooperation in the methodological field began as early as the years of study of Boris Gnedenko at the Physics and Technology Department of the Pedagogical Faculty of Saratov State University (SSU) in the late 1920s. A book with the interesting imprint has been preserved in the scientific library of SSU: “Introduction to analysis: abstract of lectures given in the first year of the Physics and Technology Department of the Pedagogical Faculty of N. G. Chernyshevsky Saratov State University during 1927–1928 academic year / G.P. Boev; comp. B. Gnedenko, ed. G. P. Boev. Saratov, 1927. 170 p.” In 1930, the year Boris Gnedenko graduated from the university, Boev, together with Gnedenko, left Saratov for Ivanovo, where he took the post of head of the department of mathematics at the Ivanovo Textile Institute. Here their joint methodological activity began in the field of probability theory and continued for many years. B.V. Gnedenko wrote and published the popular in many countries textbook "Course of Probability Theory", and G.P. Boev wrote the textbook "Probability Theory", and with the editorial participation of B.V. Gnedenko. Both textbooks form a tandem covering fundamental and applied problems of probability theory. Intersecting areas for Gnedenko and Boev was the history of mathematics. Here, both of them were also marked by books, and again complementing each other's content: Gnedenko covered in detail the history of the fundamental problems of mathematics, and Boev intended his publication to schoolchildren.

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Valery M. Anikin
Saratov State University
Russia

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