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Dates: during 1980-1989
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True college athletes would go to schools that had collegiate football and basketball programs rather than play for college-owned minor-league teams in same way that Tony Hrkac (pronounced hr-kac) played hockey for the University of North Dakota rather than for an NHL farm team. The same way that Dave Winfield played for the University of Minnesota instead of the Padres' farm team...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Play Ball | 4/21/1987 | See Source »

...students offered several different theories on why anti-semitism against mathematicians has increased over the last decade but agreed with Victor Kac, a professor of Mathematics at MIT and Soviet emmigre, that a "heightened climate of political repression" exists. The Soviet Union became more suppressive after 1968 when Russia invaded Czechoslovakia, Kac said yesterday...

Author: By Jay E. Berinstein, | Title: Emigrant Mathematicians Fault Soviet Anti-Semitism | 1/5/1982 | See Source »

...Kac, who left Russia five years ago said the Communist Party played a major role in preventing talented people from advancing to positions of influence. "It's not only a question of anti-semitism but of bureaucrats more interested in politics than progress," Kac said...

Author: By Jay E. Berinstein, | Title: Emigrant Mathematicians Fault Soviet Anti-Semitism | 1/5/1982 | See Source »

Soviet mathematicians who have emigrated to the United States include David Kazhdan, professor of Mathematics at Harvard; Kac, of MIT; Boris Moischezon and Gregory Chudnovsky of Columbia University; Boris Weisfeiler and L.N. Vaserstein of Pennsylvania State University; Mikhael Gromov of the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and IIya Piaketakii-Shapiro of Yale University...

Author: By Jay E. Berinstein, | Title: Emigrant Mathematicians Fault Soviet Anti-Semitism | 1/5/1982 | See Source »

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