Matest Mendeleevich Agrest

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Matest Mendeleevich Agrest ( Russian Матест Менделевич Агрест ; born July 20, 1915 in Mogilev , † September 20, 2005 in Charleston (South Carolina) ) was a Russian mathematician who dealt with analysis and applied mathematics. He was also a pioneer in pre-astronautics .

Agrest attended a Lubavitch yeshiva (graduated in 1929) and studied astronomy and mathematics at the Leningrad State University with a diploma in 1938, continued his studies in Moscow, fought as a soldier in the Second World War, including in the defense of Moscow, and was at the Astronomical Sternberg in 1946 Institute of Lomonosov University doctorate. After the Second World War he was involved in the secret Soviet atomic bomb project ( Arsamas-16 , then the Physics-Technical Institute in Sukhumi ). In 1969 he received his habilitation at the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Russian doctorate). In 1992 he retired and moved to Charleston, South Carolina, USA .

He published a monograph on incomplete cylinder functions and published mathematical tables on certain special functions.

He is also known for one of the early essays on pre-astronautics , which appeared in Moscow in 1961 ( Cosmonauts of Antiquity , Russian Космонавты древности ) and has been translated many times. He also published in the USA in the 1990s in the magazine Ancient Skies of the Ancient Astronaut Society, of which he was a member. In an essay from 1959 he thought the megalithic stone terraces of Baalbek were the launch pads of the extraterrestrial paleo-astronauts and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah a nuclear explosion of the paleo-astronauts. He inspired Erich von Däniken among others .

He was a practicing Orthodox Jew.

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  1. In English version also as The Astronauts of Yore