Intro; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Why L.I. Mandelstam's Biography Is Interesting; 1.2 What Has Been Written About L.I. Mandelstam?; 1.3 About Key Points and Blank Spots; 1.4 Sources; 1.5 The Plan; 2 Youth and Strasbourg Years; 2.1 Youth; 2.2 At Strasbourg University; 2.3 Strasbourg University; 2.4 Ferdinand Braun; 2.5 Braun's Philosophy of Science; 2.6 Richard von Mises; 3 The Strasbourg Period: Radio-engineering; 3.1 Radio-engineering at Strasbourg University; 3.2 Mandelstam's Degree Work

3.3 Experiments with Loose Coupling3.4 The F. Braun Energy Scheme; 3.5 On the Theory of F. Braun's Transmitter. Coupling and Coherency; 3.6 A Definite Phase Difference; 3.7 Radio Business; 3.8 L.I. Mandelstam Criticizes J.A. Fleming; 3.9 The Mandelstam-Papalexy Induction Dynamometer; 4 The Strasbourg Period: Optics; 4.1 Mandelstam and Optics; 4.2 "On Optically Homogeneous and Turbid Mediums"; 4.3 The Mandelstam Criticism of M. Planck's Theory; 4.4 Max Planck's Reply: Polemics; 4.5 The Years of Democracy: I. Sobelman Criticizes L.I. Mandelstam; 4.6 "On Roughness of Free Surface of Liquid"

4.7 "The Radiation of the Light Source, Located Very Close to the Boundary Between Two Transparent Media"4.8 The Radio-engineering Genesis of L.I. Mandelstam's Optics; 4.9 Mythology; 5 The Years of Pilgrimage (1914-1925); 5.1 Petrograd: The Absolute Method of Calibration of Cymometers; 5.2 Tbilisi (Tiflis); 5.3 Odessa; 5.4 The Central Radio Laboratory; 5.5 What We Learned About Mandelstam's Life from His and His Wife Letters to Richard von Mises; 5.6 Mandelstam and I.E. Tamm; 6 Moscow State University (1925-1935); 6.1 Invitation; 6.2 At the University

6.3 The Characteristics of Basic Groups of Professors6.4 Boris Mikhailovich Hessen; 6.5 Mandelstam as Teacher; 6.6 Teaching as an Ethical Principle; 6.7 Dear Friend, Dear Mis! Again on Mandelstam's and His Wife's Letters to Richard von Mises; 7 Research in Optics: Odessa, Moscow; 7.1 The Brillouin-Mandelstam Effect; 7.2 The Combinational Scattering of Light; 7.3 Indian Approach to the Discovery of the Combinational Scattering of Light; 7.4 The Nobel Prize; 8 The Scientific School of Mandelstam. The Early Steps and Results; 8.1 What Is a Scientific School?

8.2 Mandelstam L.I., Landsberg G.S., Leontovich M.A. Research in Optics, 1925-19298.3 The L.I. Mandelstam and M.A. Leontovich Article on Quantum Mechanics (1928); 8.4 Andronov-Leontovich and Mandelstam-Andronov-Leontovich; 8.5 Parametric Generators; 9 The Mandelstam School: Theory of Non-linear Oscillations; 9.1 Mandelstam and the Theory of Non-linear Oscillations; 9.2 The Rise of the Concept of Self-oscillations; 9.3 Abraham-Bloch's Multivibrator: A.A. Andronov and A.A. Vitt; 9.4 The "Entrainment" and "Retarded Action": B. Van der Pol, A.A. Andronov, A.A. Vitt; 9.5 The Method of a Small Parameter: A Slowly Variable Amplitude.