Ilya Nikolaevich Bronshtein

Ilya Nikolaevich Bronshtein (Russian: Илья Николаевич Бронштейн, German: Ilja Nikolajewitsch Bronstein, also written as Bronschtein; born 1903, died 1976) was a Russian applied mathematician and historian of mathematics.

Work and life

Bronshtein taught at the Moscow State Technical University (MAMI), then the State College of Mechanical Engineering, on the Chair of Advanced Mathematics established in 1939. He also collaborated at the Zhukovsky Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute.

With Dmitrii Abramovich Raikov, Bronshtein authored a Russian handbook on elementary mathematics, mechanics and physics (Справочник по елементарнои математике, механике и физике), which was published in 1943.

Bronshtein is known as the author of a handbook of mathematics for engineers and students of technical universities, which he wrote together with Konstantin Adolfovic Semendyayev around the 1939/1940 timeframe. Hot lead typesetting for the work had already started when the Siege of Leningrad prohibited further development and the print matrices were relocated. After the war, they were first considered lost, but could be found again years later, so that the first edition of Справочник по математике для инженеров и учащихся втузов could finally be published in 1945. This was a major success and went through eleven editions in Russia and was translated into various languages, including German and English, until the publisher Nauka planned to replace it with a translation of the American Mathematical Handbook for Scientists and Engineers by Granino and Theresa M. Korn in 1968. However, in a parallel development starting in 1970, the so called "Bronshtein and Semendyayev" (BS), which had been translated into German in 1958, underwent a major overhaul by a team of East-German authors around Günter Grosche, Viktor & Dorothea Ziegler (of University of Leipzig), to which Bronshtein himself could no longer contribute due to reasons of age. This was published in 1979 and spawned translations into many other languages as well, including a retranslation into Russian and an English edition. In 1986, the 13th Russian edition was published. The German 'Wende' and the later reunification led to considerable changes in the publishing environment in Germany between 1989 and 1991, which eventually resulted in two independent German publishing branches by Eberhard Zeidler (published 1995–2013) and by Gerhard Musiol [de] & Heiner Mühlig (published 1992–2020) to expand and maintain the work up to the present, again with translations into many other languages including English.

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References

  1. ↑ Girlich, Hans-Joachim [in German] (March 2014). "Von Pascals Repertorium zum Springer-Taschenbuch der Mathematik – über eine mathematische Bestsellerserie" [From Pascal's finding aid to Springer's pocketbook of mathematics – about a bestseller series in mathematics] (PDF) (in German) (preprint ed.). Leipzig, Germany: University of Leipzig, Mathematisches Institut. DNB-IDN 1052022731. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2026-10-24. Ilja N. Bronstein (1903–1976) arbeitete am 1939 geschaffenen Lehrstuhl „Höhere Mathematik" der Moskauer Staatlichen Hochschule für Maschinenbau. [Ilya N. Bronstein (1903–1976) worked at the chair of "Higher Mathematics", established in 1939, of the Moscow State College of Mechanical Engineering.]
  2. ↑ Bronshtein (Бронштейн), Ilya Nikolaevich (Илья Николаевич); Raikov (Райков), Dmitrii Abramovich (Дмитрий Абрамович) (1943). Spravochnik po elementarnoi matematike, mekhanike i fizike Справочник по елементарнои математике, механике и физике [Handbook of elementary mathematics, mechanics and physics] (in Russian). Moscow: Tekhizdat (Техиздат). OCLC 641446206. (200 pages)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Ziegler, Dorothea (2002-02-21). "Der "Bronstein"". Archiv der Stiftung Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner, Leipzig (in German). Frauwalde, Germany. Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  4. 1 2 Girlich, Hans-Joachim [in German] (March 2014). "Von Pascals Repertorium zum Springer-Taschenbuch der Mathematik – über eine mathematische Bestsellerserie" [From Pascal's finding aid to Springer's pocketbook of mathematics – about a bestseller series in mathematics] (PDF) (in German) (preprint ed.). Leipzig, Germany: University of Leipzig, Mathematisches Institut. DNB-IDN 1052022731. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
  5. ↑ Girlich, Hans-Joachim [in German] (March 2014). "Von Pascals Repertorium zum Springer-Taschenbuch der Mathematik – über eine mathematische Bestsellerserie" [From Pascal's finding aid to Springer's pocketbook of mathematics – about a bestseller series in mathematics] (PDF) (in German) (preprint ed.). Leipzig, Germany: University of Leipzig, Mathematisches Institut. DNB-IDN 1052022731. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2026-10-24. Die letzte (elfte) russische Auflage war 1967 erschienen, da der Verlag Nauka 1968 eine russische Übersetzung aus dem Amerikanischen des Mathematischen Handbuches von Granino und Theresa Korn in einer Auflage von 100 000 Exemplaren herausbrachte, um den gestiegenen Anforderungen gerecht zu werden. [The last (eleventh) Russian edition had appeared in 1967, since in 1968 the publisher Nauka brought out a Russian translation from the American of the Mathematical Handbook by Granino and Theresa Korn in an edition of 100,000 copies, in order to meet the increased requirements.]
  6. ↑ Girlich, Hans-Joachim [in German] (March 2014). "Von Pascals Repertorium zum Springer-Taschenbuch der Mathematik – über eine mathematische Bestsellerserie" [From Pascal's finding aid to Springer's pocketbook of mathematics – about a bestseller series in mathematics] (PDF) (in German) (preprint ed.). Leipzig, Germany: University of Leipzig, Mathematisches Institut. DNB-IDN 1052022731. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2026-10-24. Die B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, vertreten durch den Verlagsdirektor Heinz Kratz und die Lektorin Dorothea Ziegler, gewannen von der Sektion Mathematik der Leipziger Universität als Herausgeber Günter Grosche und Viktor Ziegler sowie 16 Autoren bzw. Bearbeiter für eine neue Fassung des Taschenbuches, das den neuen Entwicklungen einiger Teilgebiete der Mathematik, der Rechentechnik und der Schulmathematik Rechnung trägt. [B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft, represented by publishing director Heinz Kratz and editor Dorothea Ziegler, won Günter Grosche and Viktor Ziegler of the mathematics section of Leipzig University as editors, as well as 16 authors and revisers, for a new version of the pocketbook taking into account new developments in some areas of mathematics, computing and school mathematics.]
  7. ↑ Girlich, Hans-Joachim [in German] (March 2014). "Von Pascals Repertorium zum Springer-Taschenbuch der Mathematik – über eine mathematische Bestsellerserie" [From Pascal's finding aid to Springer's pocketbook of mathematics – about a bestseller series in mathematics] (PDF) (in German) (preprint ed.). Leipzig, Germany: University of Leipzig, Mathematisches Institut. DNB-IDN 1052022731. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2026-10-24. Eine Neuentwicklung der Grosche/Zieglerschen Neubearbeitung von 1979 schuf Eberhard Zeidler mit dem Teubner-Taschenbuch der Mathematik […] [Eberhard Zeidler created a new development of the Grosche/Ziegler revision of 1979 with the Teubner-Taschenbuch der Mathematik […]]
  8. ↑ Girlich, Hans-Joachim [in German] (March 2014). "Von Pascals Repertorium zum Springer-Taschenbuch der Mathematik – über eine mathematische Bestsellerserie" [From Pascal's finding aid to Springer's pocketbook of mathematics – about a bestseller series in mathematics] (PDF) (in German) (preprint ed.). Leipzig, Germany: University of Leipzig, Mathematisches Institut. DNB-IDN 1052022731. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2026-10-24. Die 13. russische verbesserte Auflage wurde 1986 im Zweifarbendruck mit 250 000 Exemplaren in Moskau produziert. [The 13th improved Russian edition was produced in Moscow in 1986 in two-colour print with 250,000 copies.]
  9. ↑ Girlich, Hans-Joachim [in German] (March 2014). "Von Pascals Repertorium zum Springer-Taschenbuch der Mathematik – über eine mathematische Bestsellerserie" [From Pascal's finding aid to Springer's pocketbook of mathematics – about a bestseller series in mathematics] (PDF) (in German) (preprint ed.). Leipzig, Germany: University of Leipzig, Mathematisches Institut. DNB-IDN 1052022731. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2026-10-24. Die Wiedervereinigung zum Verlag Teubner Stuttgart/Leipzig veranlasste Harri Deutsch zu einer zweiten deutschen Neubearbeitung des russischen Originals an der TU Dresden durch den Physiker Gerhard Musiol und den Numeriker Heiner Mühlig sowie deren Mitarbeiter. Die erste Auflage mit 848 Seiten wurde ständig aktualisiert und erweitert bis zur 8. Auflage mit 1235 Seiten von 2012. [The reunification into the publisher Teubner Stuttgart/Leipzig prompted Harri Deutsch to commission a second German revision of the Russian original at TU Dresden by the physicist Gerhard Musiol and the numerical analyst Heiner Mühlig and their collaborators. The first edition with 848 pages was continuously updated and expanded up to the 8th edition with 1235 pages in 2012.]

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