Abstract
This chapter is entitled “The years of Pilgrimage”. These were the years of World War I, Revolution, Civil War (1914–1925), economic dislocation and the beginning of the “socialist building”. Mandelstam had changed several addresses and several institutions. Mandelstam’s letters to R. von Mises help to understand his situation. In Odessa, Mandelstam met I.E. Tamm, who became his disciple.
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Notes
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Papalexy twice mentiones him in his biography of L.I. Mandelstam. There is an article about him in Wikipedia. It says that J. Tykocinski-Tykociner is Polish engineer.
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A bolometer is a device for measuring the power of incident electromagnetic radiation via the heating of a material with a temperature-dependent electrical resistance.
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I.V. Volkova is a journalist who in coauthorship wrote a book on the Central Radio Laboratory in Leningrad.
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Sergei Leonidovich Mandelstam, Mandelstam’s son.
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L.I. Mandelstam probably wrote his Strasbourg friends and colleagues. Sometimes this communication had not justified hopes.
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Mandelstam had in mind the article “Das Problem der Iteration”, published in: Zeitschrift für angewandete Mathematik und Mechanik, Bd. 1, 1921, S. 298–307.
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One of them was about the frequency theory of probability.
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Fluglehre. Vortrage über Theorie und Berechnung der Flugzeuge in elementarer Darstellung, 1 Aufl., Berlin, 1918; 2. Aufl., 1922; 3. Aufl., 1926; 4. Aufl. 1933; 5. Auflage (with Hohenmesser). A Russian translation of the first edition was published under the title “The basic principles of aeronautics” in 1926 (Moscow). The collective of translators under the leadership of P.P. Sokolov [338]. There is a publication of the second edition (Leningrad, 1926). The editor is V.A. Rynin.
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ARA is decoded as American Administration of Assistance. About the agreement of the Soviet Government with ARA see [191].
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E.L. Feinberg writes about L.I. Mandelstam’s hard neurasthenia. He also writes that Mandelstam had control over himself and his colleagues had not observed his neurasthenia [97, p. 19].
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Alexander Solomonovich Isaakovich is Lidia Solomonovna’s brother.
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Later in co-authorship Tamm published an article criticizing Kasterin [314].
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Pechenkin, A. (2014). The Years of Pilgrimage (1914–1925). In: Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00572-0_5
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