I. Grekowa

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I. Grekowa ( Russian И. Грекова , stage name derived from igrek , Slavic for Y ; also Irina Nikolajewna Grekowa , actually Elena Venttsel or Jelena Sergejewna Wentzel , née Dolginzewa; * March 8th July / March 21st  1907 greg. In Reval (now Tallinn) ; † April 15, 2002 in Moscow ) was a Russian mathematician and writer .

The daughter of a mathematician and a linguist studied mathematics in Leningrad until 1929, received her doctorate in technical sciences in 1954, and from 1955 taught as a professor specializing in corporate research . From 1935 to 1968 she worked at the Moscow Military Academy of the Air Force . From 1968 to 1987 she was a professor of applied mathematics at MIIT Moscow .

Literary work

I. Grekowa published his first literary works in the literary magazine Nowy Mir at the time when Alexander Twardowski was the editor .

Works

  • Behind the Control Booth (1962)
  • The Lady Hairdresser (1963)
  • A Summer in the City (1965, German 1972)
  • On the test site (1967)
  • The Hotel Manager (1969)
  • Little Garussow (1970)
  • The Chair , (1978, German 1981)
  • The widow steamer (1981, German 1983)
  • Anonymous letters (German 1987)
  • Life confession of a handsome man (German 1989)
  • Svesho predanije, Свежо предание ("New Legend") (written in 1962, published in 1995), ISBN 5-94663-043-1
  • ES Wentzel and LA Owtscharow: Collection of exercises for calculating probability . Academy Publishing House (1982)

Some of your literary works have been dramatized or filmed.

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personal data
SURNAME Grekowa, I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wentzel, Jelena Sergejewna (real name); Dolginzewa, Jelena Sergejewna (maiden name); Вентцель, Елена Сергеевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet mathematician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval , Russian Empire , today Estonia
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2002
Place of death Moscow , Russia