Trudy po nematematike: Filosofii︠a︡ ; Izbrannye predislovii︠a︡ ; I︠A︡zykoznanie

The author of this book is a mathematician, professor Vladimir Uspenskii, chairman of the Mathematics Department of Moscow State University. But this book is not about math. Here the reader will find works of various genres, including meditations on the philosophy of science, purely linguistic theses, poetry, and memoirs about the author's brilliant contemporaries. V. Uspenskii was one of the founders of the field called mathematical linguistics. Name index. Summary and contents in English.