Bronshtein and Semendyayev

Handbook of Mathematics
Bronshtein and Semendyayev, 13th Russian edition by Nauka (Наука), 1986
AuthorIlya Nikolaevich Bronshtein, Konstantin Adolfovic Semendyayev, et al.
LanguageRussian,[1] German,[2] Polish,[2] Hungarian,[2] French, Slovenian,[2] Croatian,[2] Serbian,[2] English,[1][2] Japanese,[1] Spanish, Chinese[2]
GenreMath
Publication date
1945[3][4]
Publication placeRussia, Germany

Bronshtein and Semendyayev (often just Bronshtein or Bronstein,[4][3][5] sometimes BS) is the informal name of a comprehensive handbook of fundamental working knowledge of mathematics and table of formulas originally compiled by the Russian mathematician Ilya Nikolaevich Bronshtein and engineer Konstantin Adolfovic Semendyayev.

The work was first published in 1945 in Russia[4][3] and soon became a "standard" and frequently used guide for scientists, engineers, and technical university students. Over the decades, high popularity and a string of translations, extensions, re-translations and major revisions by various editors led to a complex international publishing history centered around the significantly expanded German version. Legal hurdles following the fall of the Iron Curtain caused the development to split into several independent branches maintained by different publishers and editors to the effect that there are now two considerably different publications associated with the original title – and both of them are available in several languages.

With some slight variations, the English version of the book was originally named A Guide-Book to Mathematics, but changed its name to Handbook of Mathematics. This name is still maintained up to the present by one of the branches. The other line is meanwhile named Users' Guide to Mathematics to help avoid confusion.

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