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Vasily Nalimov

Vasily Nalimov is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Vasily Nalimov rather than just read about it. In short: Vasiliy Vasilievich Nalimov (Васи́лий Васи́льевич Нали́мов; 4 November 1910, Moscow – 19 January 1997) was a Russian philosopher and humanist and wrote on Transpersonal Psychology. His main areas of research were the philosophy of probability and its biological, mathematical, and linguistic manifestations.

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Reference excerpt

Vasiliy Vasilievich Nalimov (Васи́лий Васи́льевич Нали́мов; 4 November 1910, Moscow – 19 January 1997) was a Russian philosopher and humanist and wrote on Transpersonal Psychology. His main areas of research were the philosophy of probability and its biological, mathematical, and linguistic manifestations. He also studied the roles of gnosticism and mysticism in science. Thompson (1993) summarizes Nalimov as: "...philosopher, educator, devoted husband, mathematician, dissident, writer, and (although he may deny it) visionary". Nalimov has a reputation as a founder of the area of Scientometrics, as he coined the Russian term "Naukometriya" in 1969, together with Zinaida Maksimovna Mulchenko. He was not proposing the concept of citation index, as sometimes claimed. That idea reaches much further back (1873) and was first professionally used in the area of law to look up related cases Shepard's Citations. It was introduced on a large scale for science first by Eugene Garfield. Nalimov's father, Vasily Petrovich, obtained a formal medical degree in Moscow, was an anthropologist and ethnographer and was considered a shaman by his community. Nalimov's mother, Nadezhda Ivanovna, was among the first group of women to graduate as physicians in Russia. Nalimov was a co-worker of the mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov. Rustum Roy held Nalimov in high regard and sponsored some of his works.

References Thompson, Angela (1993). Vasily Vasilyevich Nalimov: Russian Visionary. Reprinted from Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 33, No. 3, Summer 1993. Source: [1] Archived 2016-02-02 at the Wayback Machine (accessed: Monday, April 30, 2007)

External links Gallery of Russian thinkers Nalimov's probabilistic vision of the world Archived 2017-09-26 at the Wayback Machine Angela Thompson Vasily Vasilievich Nalimov

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Vasily Nalimov

In research: Vasily Nalimov appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Vasily Nalimov in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Vasily Nalimov is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1910 births, 1997 deaths, 20th-century Russian philosophers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Vasily Nalimov outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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