Celebratio Mathematica

Dmitry Fuchs

Photos

Photo courtesy of Dmitry Fuchs.
As part of Khrushchev’s campaign to open vast tracts of virgin land in the northern Kazakhstan and the Altai region of the USSR, students were sent to work there in summer. This photo dates from 1957, and standing next to Fuchs (left) is A. Vinogradov, holding Pontryagin’s book Topological Groups.