- List of Illustrations*
- Introduction
- 1. Storming a Monastery
- 2. A Crisis in Mathematics
- 3. The French Trio: Borel, Lebesgue, Baire
- 4. The Russian Trio: Egorov, Luzin, Florensky
- 5. Russian Mathematics and Mysticism
- 6. The Legendary Lusitania
- 7. Fates of the Russian Trio
- 8. Lusitania and After
- 9. The Human in Mathematics, Then and Now
- Appendix: Luzin’s Personal Archives
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Illustrations:
- Framed photos of Dmitri Egorov and Pavel Florensky. Photographed by Loren Graham in the basement of the Church of St. Tatiana the Martyr, 2004.
- Monastery of St. Pantaleimon, Mt. Athos, Greece.
- Larger and larger circles with segment approaching straight line, as suggested by Nicholas of Cusa.
- Cantor ternary set.
- Émile Borel. Reproduced by permission of Institut Mittag-Leffler and Acta Mathematica.
- Henri Poincaré. Reproduced by permission of Institut Mittag-Leffler and Acta Mathematica.
- Henri Lebesgue. Reproduced by permission of L’enseignement mathématique.
- René Baire. Reproduced by permission of Institut Mittag-Leffler and Acta Mathematica.
- Arnaud Denjoy.
- Jacques Hadamard. Reproduced by permission of Institut Mittag-Leffler and Acta Mathematica.
- Charles-émile Picard. Reproduced by permission of Institut Mittag-Leffler and Acta Mathematica.
- Hotel Parisiana on the rue Tournefort in Paris, c. 1915. Reproduced from Anna Radwan, Mémoire des rues (Paris: Parimagine, 2006), p. 111.
- Nikolai Luzin in 1917. Courtesy of Uspekhi matematicheskikh nauk.
- Pavel Florensky. From Charles E. Ford, “Dmitrii Egorov: Mathematics and Religion in Moscow,” The Mathematical Intelligencer, 13 (1991), pp. 24–30. Reproduced with the kind permission of Springer Science and Business Media.
- Building of the old Moscow State University where the Lusitania seminars were held. Photograph by Loren Graham.
- Luzin’s apartment on Arbat Street, Moscow. Photograph by Loren Graham.
- Interior of Church of St. Tatiana the Martyr, Moscow. Photograph by Loren Graham.
- Nikolai Luzin, Waclaw Sierpinski, and Dmitri Egorov in Egorov’s apartment in Moscow. Photograph courtesy of N. S. Ermolaeva and Springer Science and Business Media.
- Otto Shmidt. Courtesy of the Shmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. [Link]
- “A Temple of the Machine-Worshippers.” Drawing by Vladimir Krinski, c. 1925.
- Ernst Kol’man. Reproduced with the permission of Chalidze Publications from Ernst Kol’man, My ne dolzhny byli tak zhit’ (New York: Chalidze Publications, 1982).
- Nikolai Chebotaryov. Courtesy of the State University of Kazan, the Museum of History.
- Hospital in Kazan where Maria Smirnitskaia tried to save Egorov. Photograph by Loren Graham, 2004.
- Dmitri Egorov’s gravestone, Arskoe Cemetery, Kazan. Photograph by Loren Graham, 2004.
- Nina Bari. Courtesy of Douglas Ewan Cameron, from his collection of pictures in the history of mathematics and Uspekhi matematicheskikh nauk.
- The Luzins with the Denjoy family on the island of Oléron, Brittany. Courtesy of N. S. Ermolaeva.
- Peter Kapitsa. Courtesy of the Institute of the History of Science and Technology, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and Sergei Kapitsa.
- Genealogical chart of the Moscow School of Mathematics.
- Ludmila Keldysh. Courtesy of A. Chernavsky, “Ljudmila Vsevolodovna Keldysh (to her centenary),” Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, 58 (December 2005), p. 27.
- Lev Shnirel’man. Courtesy of Uspekhi matematicheskikh nauk.
- Pavel Alexandrov, L. E. J. Brouwer, and Pavel Uryson in Amsterdam, 1924. Courtesy of Douglas Ewan Cameron, from his collection of pictures in the history of mathematics.
- Grave of Pavel Uryson (Urysohn) at Batz-sur-Mer, France. Photograph by Jean-Michel Kantor.
- Pavel Alexandrov. Courtesy of Douglas Ewan Cameron, from his collection of pictures in the history of mathematics.
- Andrei Kolmogorov. Courtesy of Uspekhi matematicheskikh nauk.
- Pavel Alexandrov swimming. Courtesy of Douglas Ewan Cameron, from his collection of pictures in the history of mathematics.
- Alexandrov and Kolmogorov together. Courtesy of Douglas Ewan Cameron, from his collection of pictures in the history of mathematics.
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