Talk:Lev Pontryagin

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Not only doesn't this give any detail about any of his mathematical work, it also omits any mention of his virulent anti-Semitism: see, for example, "An Unpublished Reply", by Lipman Bers; R. H. Bing; Henri Cartan; P. D. Lax; Saunders Mac Lane; Deane Montgomery; Georges De Rham; Marshall Stone; Oscar Zariski, Science Copyright 1980 American Association for the Advancement of Science, which is a letter in response to Pontryagin's statement that he had "saved the International Mathematics Union from an attempt by the Zionists to take the IMU into their hands" by blocking the election of a famous mathematician, Nathan Jacobson, to the office of President.