Efremovich Vadim Arsen'evich

(16.H.1903, g. Jmerinka - 1.V.1989, Moscow)
He graduated from Moscow University (1924). He worked at various universities, including the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute USSR Academy of Sciences. I decided a number of deep scientific problems in the field of topology, the creator of the so-called uniform topology. Written several popular science books. E. was a kind and gentle person, but firm and inflexible in matters of principle. Not on his own he had to repeatedly leave their jobs, six times - as he said himself - to fly into the chimney. For seven years he spent in Stalin's camps and prisons. In 1930-1937 gg. Working in the Moscow Higher Technical School, both in combination was a professor at the Smolensk Pedagogical Institute, and in 1934-37 he. headed the Department of Mathematics.

Lit.: Mathematics in School, 1989. -? 5.