Kvant magazine

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Kvant (Russian: Квант for "quantum") is a popular science magazine in physics and mathematics for school students and teachers, issued since 1970 in Soviet Union and continued in Russia. It was a joint project of the USSR Academy of Sciences and USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. In Soviet time its circulation was some 200,000, it was published by Nauka publisher.

The idea of the magazine was introduced by Pyotr Kapitsa. Its first chief editors were physicist Isaak Kikoin and mathematician Andrei Kolmogorov. In 1985 its editorial board had 18 Academicians and Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences and USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, 14 Doctors of Sciences and 20 Candidates of Science. [1]

Since 1983 the magazine has been translated and published in Greece. There were two books with articles from Kvant published in France. [1] Some of its articles were translated by the Quantum Magazine.

All its issues for 1970-2003 are available online.

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  1. ^ a b 15th anniversary of Kvant
  • Kvant Selecta, a collection of translated articles from Kvant, edited by Serge Tabachnikov, [1].

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