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Yuri Gastev (22 March 1928, in Moscow – 12 October 1993, in Boston) was a Soviet mathematician and cybernetician who became an active dissident, finally emigrating to the USA.
Yuri was the son of Aleksei Gastev, the revolutionary poet who later became an advocate of
Yuri Gastev (22 March 1928, in Moscow – 12 October 1993, in Boston) was a Soviet mathematician and cybernetician who became an active dissident, finally emigrating to the USA.
Yuri was the son of Aleksei Gastev, the revolutionary poet who later became an advocate of scientific management
Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows. Its main objective is improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineer ...
. Aleksei was arrested in 1938 as part of the Great Purge and murdered the following year. Yuri left school at 15 and started attending Moscow University
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. However two years later in 1945 he was arrested for anti-Soviet activity. Upon release he settled in Estonia working as a labourer and as a teacher.
At the time of Stalin's death in 1953 Gastev was in hospital. When it was announced on the radio that Stalin had fallen into Cheyne-Stokes breathing, another patient, being a doctor, recognised the significance of this and declared "Cheyne-Stokes is the end, time to get out the bottle". He included references to Cheyne-Stokes when defending his degree thesis, and added references to it in a book he wrote for the Soviet Cybernetics
Cybernetics in the Soviet Union had its own particular characteristics, as the study of cybernetics came into contact with the dominant scientific ideologies of the Soviet Union and the nation's economic and political reforms: from the unmitigat ...
Council. This later cases was spotted leading to the editor being sacked. Gastev had already been sacked so no action was taken against him.
In 1981 he emigrated to France, then to the United States.
Gastev died of cancer in New England Deaconess Hospital
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Massachusetts is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. It was formed out of the 1996 merger of Beth Israel Hospital (founded in 1916) and New England Deaconess Hospital (founded ...
on 12 October 1993.
Works
* 1964 "Metatheory" with I. Shmain in ''Filosofskaya entsiklopediya'', Vol. 3, Moscow pp. 400–402References
1928 births 1993 deaths Soviet mathematicians Soviet expatriates in France Soviet emigrants to the United States {{Europe-mathematician-stub