![]() ![]() ![]() When nobody is watching, he writes poetry. His current research project is on the social history of the mathematics community in the Soviet Union in the second half of the twentieth century. ![]() His recently books include "Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space" (2014), a collection of his interviews with veterans of the Soviet space program, and "Soviet Space Mythologies: Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity" (2015), a study of professional and cultural identities of Soviet cosmonauts and engineers, a finalist for the 2016 Historia Nova Prize for the best book on Russian intellectual and cultural history. His first book "From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics" (2002) received the honorable mention for the Vucinich Prize for an outstanding monograph in Russian, Eurasian, or East European studies. He was born in Lyubertsy near Moscow in 1963, and moved to the United States in 1992 to get his PhD at MIT. Slava Gerovitch is a historian of science and technology, teaching cultural history of mathematics at MIT. ![]()
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