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It was mentioned in Chap. 2 that on 1.08.1914, Mandelstam together with his wife and son arrived in Odessa. N.D. Papalexy’s “Short Outline” says that at the end of 1915 L.I.
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Papalexy twice mentions him in his biography of L.I. Mandelstam. There is an article about him in Wikipedia. It says that J. Tykocinski-Tykociner is Polish engineer.
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A bolometer is a device for measuring the power of incident electromagnetic radiation via the heating of a material with a temperature-dependent electrical resistance.
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I.V. Volkova is a journalist who in coauthorship wrote a book on the Central Radio Laboratory in Leningrad.
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Sergei Leonidovich Mandelstam, Mandelstam’s son.
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L.I. Mandelstam probably wrote his Strasbourg friends and colleagues. Sometimes this communication had not justified hopes.
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Mandelstam had in mind the article “Das Problem der Iteration”, published in: Zeitschrift für angewandete Mathematik und Mechanik, Bd. 1, 1921, S. 298–307.
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One of them was about the frequency theory of probability.
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Fluglehre. Vortrage über Theorie und Berechnung der Flugzeuge in elementarer Darstellung, 1 Aufl., Berlin, 1918; 2. Aufl., 1922; 3. Aufl., 1926; 4. Aufl. 1933; 5. Auflage (with Hohenmesser). A Russian translation of the first edition was published under the title “The basic principles of aeronautics” in 1926 (Moscow). The collective of translators under the leadership of P.P. Sokolov [367]. There is a publication of the second edition (Leningrad, 1926). The editor is V.A. Rynin.
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ARA is decoded as American Administration of Assistance. About the agreement of the Soviet Government with ARA see [203].
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E.L. Feinberg writes about L.I. Mandelstam’s hard neurasthenia. He also writes that Mandelstam had control over himself and his colleagues had not observed his neurasthenia [103, p. 19].
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Alexander Solomonovich Isaakovich is Lidia Solomonovna’s brother.
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Later in coauthorship, Tamm published an article criticizing Kasterin [342].
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Pechenkin, A. (2019). The Years of Pilgrimage (1914–1925). In: L.I. Mandelstam and His School in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17685-3_5
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