Moscow University Maths Department for Schoolchildren

[摘要] The Minor Department of Mechanics and Mathematics(“Malyi Mechmath” – “Junior Maths Department”) comprises study groups for motivated schoolchildren keenon mathematics. It is hosted by the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow StateUniversity and was founded in the late 1970s through theinitiative of some young mathematicians (and later professors) S.B. Gashkov, I.N. Sergeev and Ya.V. Tatarinov,who managed to unite independent evening classes forresidents and distance learning courses. Now, the resident classes pertain to the Evening Division and the distance learning courses have been reorganised into theCorrespondence Division of Minor Mechmath.