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"In the last 30 years, the prestige of mathematics has declined in all countries. I think that mathematicians are partially to be blamed as well—foremost, Hilbert and Bourbaki—the ones who proclaimed t…"

"V. I. Arnold's web page"

"Problems from 5 to 15, a text by Arnold for school students, available at the IMAGINARY platform"

"In the middle of the twentieth century it was attempted to divide physics and mathematics. The consequences turned out to be catastrophic. Whole generations of mathematicians grew up without knowing h…"

"V. I. Arnold lecturing on Continued Fractions"

"On Teaching Mathematics, text of a talk espousing Arnold's opinions on mathematical instruction"

"In almost all textbooks, even the best, this principle is presented so that it is impossible to understand." . I have not chosen to break with tradition."

"A person, who had not mastered the art of the proofs in high school, is as a rule unable to distinguish correct reasoning from that which is misleading. Such people can be easily manipulated by the ir…"

"All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography , hydrodynamics and celestial mechanics ."

"At the beginning of this century a self-destructive democratic principle was advanced in mathematics , according to which all axiom systems have equal right to be analyzed, and the value of a mathemat…"