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SECTION VI 



RUSSIAN TEXTS AND GLOSSARY 



Coming to a collection of Russian texts, the scientist will undoubtedly search 

 eagerly for an article in his particular field. It is, obviously, impossible to present 

 a completely representative body of texts and, furthermore, it is not necessary. At 

 this stage the student must learn above all to manipulate the Russian grammatical 

 apparatus and this can be done effectively with any non-literary Russian texts. With 

 one exception(3) the texts included in this manual are all concerned with scientific 

 subjects, so selected as to provide interesting, as well as useful, reading. * 



Texts 



1 Theory 



2 Peter L. Kapitsa (an outstanding Russian physicist) 



3 Dostoevsky and Sputnik 



4 Classification of Insects 



5 Suitable Units of Measurement 



6 Atoms 



7 The Syndrome of Dementia 



8 Chemical Abstracts 



9 Differential Equations 



10 The Use of Radioactive Isotopes in Medicine 



*If the student feels the need of guidance in reading these texts and if there is no 

 course in Scientific Russian at a local educational institution, he may wish to take 

 advantage of the course in Scientific Russian recently announced by the Correspondence 

 Study Department of the University of Minnesota. The correspondence course will cover 

 these texts and others, to be selected by the individual students. 



