Course List 1
Course List 1
Course List 1
Grading system:
Most of courses are graded using 4 grades system:
Grade excellent good satisfactory unsatisfactory
American equivalent A B C D
Unofficial Russian quality points 5 4 3 2
Quality points in US equivalent 4 3 2 1
Less important courses and some of courses longer then one term in an intermediate term are graded using 2
grades system: satisfactory (S) and unsatisfactory (U).
Duration of Terms:
Fall 16 - 17 weeks
Spring 16 - 18 weeks
Notes
In Russia BS degree is a not important intermediate degree awarded mainly for comparison with US system.
MS degree is much more important. So, I will not list undergraduate and graduate courses separately.
Undergraduate study is first 4 years of the education (Fall 1994 Spring 1998)
Some courses are normally taken in an academic institute dependent on the area of specialization. I have
taken these courses in Lebedev Physical Institute. They are marked with an LPI mark.
In MIPT most of the courses are based on the lectures, not on a particular textbook. We used normally
several textbooks. I list only some principal textbooks in each course. Blank space means that either this
course was based only on the lectures or we used many textbooks or we used only manuals and textbooks
1. General Physics
hoursTotal number of
weekNo. of hours per
Number of terms
Grade(s)
Principal textbook (s) used
No. Course title Term
(or description of work)
2. Optics
3. Mathematics
30. Calculus A.M. Ter-Krikorov, M.I. Fall 94 6 4 400 A,
Shabunin Course of Spring 96 A,
Mathematical Analysis A,
A
31. Analytical Geometry D.V.Beklemishev Course of Fall 94 4 1 72 A
Analytical Geometry and Linear
Algebra
32. Linear Algebra D.V.Beklemishev Course of Spring 95 4 1 64 A
Analytical Geometry and Linear
Algebra
33. Differential Equations L.S.Pontryagin Ordinary Fall 95 4 2 144 S, A
Differential Equations, Spring 96
V.V.Fedoryuk Ordinary
Differential Equations
34. Probability Theory Chistyakov Probability theory, Spring 95 2 1 34 A
A.A.Borovkov Probability
Theory
35. Theory Functions of M.A.Lavrentev, B.V.Shabat Fall 96 5 1 85 A
Complex Variables Methods of Theory of Functions
of Complex Variable
Y.V.Sidorov, M.V.Fedoryuk,
M.I.Shabunin Lectures on
Theory of Functions of Complex
Variable
36. Mathematical Physics V.S.Vladimirov Partial Fall 96 4 2 149 A,
Differential Equations A
37. Stochastic Processes A.A.Natan Stochastic Spring 1998 4 1 68 S
Processes
5. Modern Languages
41. English Various books prepared by the Fall 1994 4 6 416 S,S,
Department of Foreign Spring 1997 S,A,
Languages. S,A
42. German Fall 1994 2 8 264 S,S,
Spring 1996 S,A
Fall 1997 S,A
Spring 1999 S,A
43. French Fall 1998 2 2 68 S,A
Spring 1999
6. Humanities
44. History of Ancient Greece Fall 1994 2 1 36 S
45. History of Culture (History Fall 1994 4 2 72 S, A
of Cinema) Spring 1995
46. History of Ancient Rome Spring 1995 2 1 36 A
47. Domestic History (History Fall 1995 5 1 84 S, A
of the USSR) Spring 1996
48. History of Philosophy Fall 1997 4 2 136 S, A
Spring 1998
49. Philosophy Fall 1998 3 2 108 S, A
Spring 1999
7. Other courses