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. Translation of selected articles from Kvant had been published in Quantum magazine in 1990–2001, which in turn had been translated and published in Greece in 1993–2001.[1]
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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. [2]
All published issues of Kvant are freely available online.[3]
Quantum Magazine was a bimonthly magazine about science and math mainly targeted at high school and college students. It was published by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) from 1990 to 2001 and printed and distributed by Springer. Some of the articles were translations from Kvant.
NSTA ceased publication of Quantum with the July/August 2001 issue, after publishing a total of 66 issues.
In 1999, American Mathematical Society published translation of selected articles from Kvant on algebra and mathematical analysis as two volumes in the Mathematical World series.[4][5] Yet another volume, published in 2002, included translation of selected articles on combinatorics. [6]
There were two books with selected articles from Kvant published in France.