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Russian physicist, Igor Tamm won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958.

During the Russian revolution, he was a professor at the University of

Odessa in Ukraine. During that time, there was hunger in the cities but

not in the food-producing villages, and the peasants hoarded and hidRussian physicist, Igor Tamm won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958.

During the Russian revolution, he was a professor at the University of

Odessa in Ukraine. During that time, there was hunger in the cities but

not in the food-producing villages, and the peasants hoarded and hidfood. One way to get some bread and butter, or maybe a chicken, was to

walk to a village not too far from [Odessa], carrying along some silk

handkerchiefs, a few pieces of family silver, or even a golden watch, and

to exchange these for food. Many enterprising city inhabitants did this,

even though it was a dangerous undertaking.

Once when Igor Tamm arrived in a neighbouring village, at the

period when Odessa was occupied by the Reds, and was negotiating

with a villager as to how many chickens he could get for half a dozen

silver spoons, the village was captured by one of the Makhno bands,

who were roaming the country, harassing the Reds. Seeing his city

clothes, the capturers brought him to the Ataman, a bearded fellow in a

tall black fur hat with machine-gun cartridge ribbons crossed on his

broad chest and a couple of hand grenades hanging on the belt.“You agitator, undermining our Mo ther Ukraine! The punishment is

death.”

“But no,” answered Tamm, “I am a professor at the University of

Odessa and have come here only to get some food.”

“Rubbish!” retorted the leader. “What kind of professor are you?”

“I teach mathematics.”

“Mathematics?” said the Ataman. “All right! Then give me an estimate

of the error one makes by cutting off Maclaurin’s series at the nth term.

Do this, and you will go free. Fail, and you will be shot!”

Tamm could not believe his ears, since this problem belongs to a rather

special branch of higher mathematics. With a shaking hand, and under

the muzzle of the gun, he managed to work out the solution and handed

it to the Ataman.

“Correct!” said the Ataman. “Now I see that you really are a professor.

Go home!”.

Narrate the event's that happened in the life of Igor Tamm at the time of his arrest in Ukraine in detail​

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