Abstract:
Pafnutiy Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) is known primarily as an outstanding mathematician who made a significant contribution to the development of number theory, probability theory, theory of functions, and theory of mechanisms. However, Chebyshev was not only a scientist, he took part in the development of reforms in secondary and higher education, drew up teaching programs, reviewed educational and methodological literature in mathematics. This activity took place in the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Public Education, of which P.L. Chebyshev was a member from 1856 to 1873. This Chebyshev's documents: notes, reports, reviews, preserve in the Russian State Historical Archive, in the fund of the Scientific Committee. In July 2021, they were published as a collection. The lecture will talk about what documents were included in it, and what conclusions can be drawn from their analysis. Fragments of the collection can be found on the publisher's website: https://biblio.mccme.ru/node/102641.
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