Word: nathanson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-Semitism runs so deeply that they distinguish between Russian mathematics and Jewish mathematics," says Melvyn B. Nathanson, dean of the graduate school of Rutgers University in New Jersey and a widely noted authority on Soviet mathematics. What this means, explains the dean, is that Jews have found it increasingly difficult to gain admission to undergraduate and graduate programs in math and earn advanced degrees, as well as finding it "almost impossible" to obtain academic position...
...Soviets allow mathematicians of such caliber to go seems rather odd, especially in light of their fixation with mathematical and technical expertise. Nathanson guesses that it has to do with the fact that scholars like Bernstein and Kazhdan work in pure mathematics which, unlike applied math, has no immediate use for developing weapons and technology. "These people tend to be short-sighted," he says, adding that losing such mathematicians could come back to haunt the Soviets in the long-term...
...years, Bernstein-like others familiar with Soviet academic-cites a general rise in discrimination as well as the rise of a number of virulent anti-Semitic mathematicians into key positions within the important Soviet Academy of Sciences. One, for example, has been quoted in a report by Nathanson as saying. "Jewish mathematical is bad mathematics...
Because of the heavy centralization of Soviet mathematic efforts, these key officials wield enormous influence, unlike in the United States, explains Nathanson. "Power flows down from above in a very pyramidal influence. The people at the apex of the pyramid have a very dominating role." Hence, experts say, anti-Jewish sentiment is stronger than in other academic fields...
Arts organizations in the U.S., which have looked to cable to help replace federal funds cut by the Reagan Administration, were saddened by the announcement but not surprised. Marc Nathanson, president of the 100,000-subscriber Falcon Communications in California, noted, "We take frequent surveys, and I was always shocked to see that CBS Cable attracted only 2% of our viewers on a weekly basis." CBS Cable may simply have been the first casualty of an underlying industry-wide problem: total advertising revenue for all of cable last year was $100 million, an anemic .16% of total U.S. advertising. None...