''Kvant'' (russian: Квант for "
quantum
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") is a
popular science
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magazine
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in
physics
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and
mathematics
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for school students and teachers, issued in print between 1970 and 2011. The magazine became an online-only publication in 2011.
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
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in 1994–2001.
History
''Kvant'' was started as a joint project of the
USSR Academy of Sciences
The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...
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
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa or Peter Kapitza (Russian: Пётр Леонидович Капица, Romanian: Petre Capița ( – 8 April 1984) was a leading Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physics ...
. Its first chief editors were physicist
Isaak Kikoin
Isaak Konstantinovich (Kushelevich) Kikoin (; 28 March 1908 – 28 December 28, 1984), , was a Soviet physicist of Lithuanian origin and an author of physics textbooks in Russian language who played an important role in the former Soviet program ...
and mathematician
Andrei Kolmogorov
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov ( rus, Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ kəlmɐˈɡorəf, a=Ru-Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.ogg, 25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a Sovi ...
. In 1985, its
editorial board
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Mass media
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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.
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The last print issue of ''Kvant'' was published at the beginning of 2011.[ Then the print edition was closed making the magazine an online publication.][
]
Availability
All published issues of ''Kvant'' were freely available online.
Translations
Quantum Magazine
''Quantum Magazine'' was a US-based bimonthly magazine published by the National Science Teachers Association
The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA), founded in 1944 (as the National Science Teachers Association) and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, is an association of science teachers in the United States and is the largest organization ...
(NSTA) from 1990 to 2001. Some of its articles were translations from ''Kvant''.
Kvant Selecta
In 1999, American Mathematical Society
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published translation of selected articles from Kvant on algebra
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Elementary a ...
and mathematical analysis
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as two volumes in the ''Mathematical World'' series. Yet another volume, published in 2002, included translation of selected articles on combinatorics
Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many appl ...
.
Other translations
There were two books with selected articles from Kvant published in France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
by Jean-Michel Kantor [Mathématiques venues d'ailleurs, divertissements mathématiques en U.R.S.S., Chroniques extraites de la revue QUANT et adapté du russe par Jean-Michel Kantor, , ed. Bellin 1982]
References
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External links
Kvant archive website
Kvant website
The official website of Quantum Magazine
The Greek version of Quantum Magazine.
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