Kvant (magazine)
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| Categories | Physics, mathematics |
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| First issue | 1970 |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Kvant (Russian: Квант for "quantum") is a popular science magazine in physics and mathematics for school students and teachers, issued since 1970 in Soviet Union and continued in Russia. Translation of selected articles from Kvant had been published in Quantum Magazine in 1990–2001, which in turn had been translated and published in Greece in 1993–2001.[1]
Contents
History
Kvant was started as a joint project of the USSR Academy of Sciences and USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. In Soviet time, it was published by Nauka publisher with circulation about 200,000.
The idea of the magazine was introduced by Pyotr Kapitsa. Its first chief editors were physicist Isaak Kikoin and mathematician Andrei Kolmogorov. In 1985, its editorial board had 18 Academicians and Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences and USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, 14 Doctors of Sciences and 20 Candidates of Science.[2]
Availability
All published issues of Kvant are freely available online.[3]
Translations
Quantum Magazine
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Quantum Magazine was a US-based bimonthly magazine published by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) from 1990 to 2001. Some of its articles were translations from Kvant.
Kvant Selecta
In 1999, American Mathematical Society published translation of selected articles from Kvant on algebra and mathematical analysis as two volumes in the Mathematical World series.[4][5] Yet another volume, published in 2002, included translation of selected articles on combinatorics. [6]
Other translations
There were two books with selected articles from Kvant published in France.
References
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- ↑ 15th anniversary of Kvant
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External links
- Kvant archive website (Russian)
- Kvant website (Russian)
- The official website of Quantum Magazine
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles containing Russian-language text
- Articles with Russian-language external links
- 1970 establishments in the Soviet Union
- Education in the Soviet Union
- Magazines established in 1970
- Russian science and technology magazines
- Russian-language magazines
- Science and technology in the Soviet Union
- Science and technology magazines
- Soviet magazines
- Science education
- Education magazines
