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To: Alamo-Girl
As long as you have brought up Kolmogorov, I would like to point out that his papers (of 1940) favorable to evolutionary theory were "censored" in 1953 by the anti-darwinists. Vide: Uspekhi Matematischeski Nauk, 7 (1953) pp. 194-200.

In addition, Serge Bernstein's book on probability was not reprented on the same grounds. Even quantum mechanics was not fully accepted in the USSR because of its inherent indetermancy. The "Communist State" allowed of no "random" components. Every thing was designed by the Party.

To be fair, Kolmogorov was only censored but the evolutionary biologist Vil'yams was executed for holding Darwinist views. (I wonder if Vil'yams's family came originally from England.)

2,345 posted on 01/02/2003 8:35:13 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Thank you so very much for all the information on Kolmogorov and Vil'yams! I couldn't find additional information regarding the incidents online at first blush, but I'll try again later because it is very interesting.
2,373 posted on 01/02/2003 9:38:11 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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