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Valeriy Manokhin
Personal blog · valeman.medium.commathhistoryscience
Valeriy Manokhin's personal blog at valeman.medium.com covers math, history and science. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Men Who Translated the Machine”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one comment links a Medium post, whose URL slug suggests it is about the men who translated a machine-related book in the Soviet era. The commenter's remark praises Soviet books and scientists in general.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Men Who Translated the Machine2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-23
What Hacker News says?
Soviet books were a boon to the world. I thank Soviet scientists. https://valeman.medium.com/the-men-who-translated-the-machin...
Comment linking /the-men-who-translated-the-machine-wu-zuji-qiu-guangming-and-the-hidden-builders-of-chinas-68a49f53e0b1
on “Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era”Submitted Euler's Eyes as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Cool Russian Way to Teach Subtraction: Replace It with Addition as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Origins of Modern Mathematics in Russia as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The multiplication method Russian peasants used for a thousand years as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cosmonauts Algorithm: Soviet Scientists Invented Predictive Health Monitoring as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Gaussian Distribution Is Inevitable (and This Beautiful Principle Proves It) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Russians Were Using the Chinese Remainder Theorem a Century Before Gauss Proved as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Wrong Answers, One Exact Solution: The Arithmetic Method Schools Forgot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Before Magnitsky: The Forgotten Russian Arithmetic Textbook Printed in Amsterdam as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Bolsheviks Destroyed Russian Mathematical Education as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Talk About the Time the CIA Kidnapped Lunik as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transformers Are What You Do Not Need as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep Inside a Moscow Museum: A Metal Turtle That Learned as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Recommend Old Russian Mathematics Books as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vapnik and Chervonenkis: The Founding Fathers of Machine Learning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Many Children Learned Mathematics from Kiselev's Textbooks? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moscow Economics School That Helped Produce Revolut, XTX as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The West Talks About "Distillation." Fine. Let's Talk About Project Azorian as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Men Who Translated the Machine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted China Did Not Build Its Math Machine from Scratch. It Rewired the Soviet One as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Top Chinese and Russian Students Don't Use Apostol or Spivak as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Finland's "Math Miracle" Deceived the World as a story · 1 points
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