Download or read book The Moscow Pythagoreans written by Ilona Svetlikova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, mysticism, anti-Semitism, and mathematical theory fused into a distinctive intellectual movement. Through analyses of such seemingly disparate subjects as Moscow mathematical circles and the 1913 novel Petersburg, this book illuminates a forgotten aspect of Russian cultural and intellectual history.