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Moscow, Russia
Moscow, Russia
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Nina Bari's parents were Olga Eduardovna Seligson and Karl Adolfovich Bari.Karl Adolfovich was a medical doctor. Nina Karlovna was educated at a private school, L O Vyazemska's High School for Girls in Moscow, where she showed great potential in mathematics.
Nina Karlovna Bari was a Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series.
At this time the education available for girls in Russia was of lower quality than that of boys and, as a consequence, the final examinations for girls were of a lower standard than those for boys. However, Bari wanted to show her proficiency in mathematics so she took the highly unusual step of taking the boy's leaving examinations.
After the October 1917 Revolution in Russia the Bolshevik Party introduced major educational reforms, the most relevant to Bari being that for the first time universities were open to wo