Yesterday and Long Ago

- Preface

- My first recollections

- The North-West direction

- Vera Stepanovna Arnold (née Zhitkova)

- First scientific reminiscences

- The Arnold family

- A household library

- The axiomatic method

- The color of a meridian

- School years

- It is not easy to keep a secret

- The temple of science

- Who is the winner?- State examination on Marxism

- Goodwill

- The thermal conductivity equation

- Lavoisier and French mathematics during the Revolution

- Queen Eleanor, Rosamund, and labyrinth theory

- Place de Vogueses

- "Champel Sea"

- Neutrinos, neutrons, and Bruno Pontecorvo

- From Pareto to Arzamas

- How to distinguish good and bad mathematical works

- The combinatorics of Plutarch

- Galilei

- The topology of surfaces according to Alexander of Macedon

- Snake-hunting

- Suputinskii nature reserve

- Pheasants of the Vincent forest

- The guillotine and Marie-Antoinette

- Damienss sufferings

- Queen Marguerite and the kingdom of law

- Jeanne dArc as a witch and as a saint

- Ravailliac, French cuisine, and traffic jams

- Anne Yaroslavna, Princess of Russia

- Gennady of Novgorod and education in Russia under Ivan III

- Catherine I and the Prut river campaign

- Catherine II and I.I. Betskoi

- An order of Catherine II

- Radishchev

- The Crimean war

- Princess Dashkova and parachutes

- The desecrated host and abstract algebra

- France Guinea India

- Julius Caesar and Gallians: protecting Rome from Germans

- A planning department

- Mountain lions over Stanford

- The Pocha river and the dog Shnura

- Hong Kong

- The Pongoma river and the Solovetskie islands

- Brazilian tours

- Leibnitz as Bourbakis predecessor

- The "Mistral" in the "Crown"

- How academicians were elected and eliminated

- From the history of French economy

- The origins of mathematics: from Greece to Egypt

- Motivation for mathematical education in