Semyon Vilenskiy’s sister Bertha Vilenskaya

My sister Bertha Vilenskaya, a student of Mathematic Faculty, Moscow State University. This photo was taken in 1940  in Moscow  for the memory.

In 1920 my sister Bertha was born. She became a talented mathematician. She graduated from the Engineering Mathematical Faculty of MSU and was a very talented person. Her teacher, an outstanding mathematician, used to say that women were worthless in mathematics, but Bertha Vilenskaya. After the war she was editor of the 'Mathematical Bulletin' journal. It was a very popular journal. In 1941 she volunteered to the front, she returned in 1945. She never got married, but in 1945 her son Yevgeniy Vilenskiy was born. He died from cancer in 1980. After the war my sister kept working for this journal. She died in 1983. We buried her in a town cemetery.