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| category = [[Physics]], [[mathematics]]
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'''''Kvant''''' ({{lang-ru|Квант}} for "[[quantum]]") is a [[popular science]] [[magazine]] in [[physics]] and [[mathematics]] for school students and teachers, issued in print between 1970 and 2011. The magazine became an online-only publication in 2011.<ref name=info>{{cite news|title=Внимание!|url=http://www.kvant.info/|access-date=13 June 2020 |work=Kvant|language=Russian}}</ref> Translation of selected articles from ''Kvant'' had been published in ''[[Quantum Magazine]]'' in 1990–2001, which in turn had been translated and published in [[Greece]] in 1994–2001.<ref name="greek">{{cite web|url=http://ph403.edu.physics.uoc.gr/quantum.php |title=Quantum (Greek)|access-date=September 5, 2016}}</ref>

==History==
''Kvant'' was started as a joint project of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences|USSR Academy of Sciences]] and USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. In Soviet time, it was published by [[Nauka (publisher)|Nauka]] publisher with circulation about 200,000.

The idea of the magazine was introduced by [[Pyotr Kapitsa]]. Its first chief editors were physicist [[Isaak Kikoin]] and mathematician [[Andrei Kolmogorov]]. In 1985, its [[editorial board]] had 18 Academicians and Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences and USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, 14 [[Doctor of Science|Doctors of Sciences]] and 20 [[Candidate of Science|Candidates of Science]].<ref name="1985n1p2">[http://kvant.mccme.ru/1985/01/p02.htm 15th anniversary of Kvant]</ref>

The last print issue of ''Kvant'' was published at the beginning of 2011.<ref name=info/> Then the print edition was closed making the magazine an online publication.<ref name=info/>

==Availability==
All published issues of ''Kvant'' were freely available online.<ref>[http://kvant.mccme.ru Kvant archive website]</ref>

==Translations==
===Quantum Magazine ===
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''Quantum Magazine'' was a US-based bimonthly magazine published by the [[National Science Teachers Association]] (NSTA) from 1990 to 2001. Some of its articles were translations from ''Kvant''.

===Kvant Selecta===
In 1999, [[American Mathematical Society]] published translation of selected articles from Kvant on [[algebra]] and [[mathematical analysis]] as two volumes in the ''Mathematical World'' series.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tabachnikov| first=Serge|authorlink=Sergei Tabachnikov|title=Kvant Selecta: Algebra and Analysis, I|publisher=American Mathematical Society|series=Mathematical World|volume=14|year=1999|isbn=978-0-8218-1002-6|url=https://www.ams.org/bookstore?fn=20&arg1=mawrldseries&item=MAWRLD-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Tabachnikov|first=Serge|title=Kvant Selecta: Algebra and Analysis, II|publisher=American Mathematical Society|series=Mathematical World|volume=15|year=1999|isbn= 978-0-8218-1915-9|url=https://www.ams.org/bookstore?fn=20&arg1=mawrldseries&item=MAWRLD-15}}</ref> Yet another volume, published in 2002, included translation of selected articles on [[combinatorics]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Tabachnikov|first=Serge|title=Kvant Selecta: Combinatorics, I|publisher=American Mathematical Society|series= Mathematical World|volume=17|year=2002|isbn = 978-0-8218-2171-8|url=https://www.ams.org/bookstore?fn=20&arg1=mawrldseries&item=MAWRLD-17}}</ref>

===Other translations===
There were two books with selected articles from Kvant published in [[France]] by Jean-Michel Kantor <ref>Mathématiques venues d'ailleurs, divertissements mathématiques en U.R.S.S., Chroniques extraites de la revue QUANT et adapté du russe par Jean-Michel Kantor, {{ISBN|2-7011-0442-4}}, ed. Bellin 1982</ref>

==References==
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*{{cite journal |author=Aksenteva M S |title=The journal ''Kvant'' is only 30 years old after all! |journal=Physics-Uspekhi|volume=43 |year=2000 |issue=12|pages=1261–1262 |doi=10.1070/PU2000v043n12ABEH000906}}

==External links==
*[http://kvant.mccme.ru/ Kvant archive website] {{in lang|ru}}
*[http://kvant.info/ Kvant website] {{in lang|ru}}
*[http://www.nsta.org/quantum/ The official website of Quantum Magazine]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121203085731/http://ph403.edu.physics.uoc.gr/quantum.php The Greek version of Quantum Magazine.]{{in lang|el}}

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