The story about the war of the scarlet and white roses

Doctor of Physical and Mathematics Alexander Yakovlevich Helemsky-Honored Professor of the Mechanical and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. As expected, he gives the main and special lecture courses, conducts classes in academic groups, and leads the research seminar. He wrote five monographs and about eighty scientific articles (The last monograph is called “Quantum Functional Analysis”) Among its students are candidates and doctors of science.

All his life A.Ya. Helemsky experienced great interest in history, first English (after the Shakespearean chronicles read in childhood), then ancient and Chinese, and later Japanese. At many mathematical conferences, at the request of his colleagues and friends, he lectured on historical topics (the latter was called “Guelphs, Mastellina and Dante Aligieri”), and sometimes, if time, and lecture cycles allowed. One of these lecture cycles formed the basis of the book lying in front of you