Alexander Volpin was born on May 12, 1924, in the Soviet Union. His mother, Nadezhda Volpin, was a poet and translator from French and English. His father was 展开

• Ésénine-Volpine, A. S. (1961), "Le programme ultra-intuitionniste des fondements des mathématiques", Infinitistic Methods (Proc. Sympos. Foundations of Math., … 展开

• Great Russian Poet's Son Comes Home at MN
• Turzański, Marian (1992). "Strong sequences, binary families and Esenin-Volpin's theorem". Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae. 33 (3): 563–569. 展开

His early work was in general topology, where he introduced Esenin-Volpin's theorem. Most of his later work was on the foundations of mathematics, where he introduced ultrafinitism, an extreme form of constructive mathematics that casts doubt on the existence of … 展开

• Nathans, Benjamin (2006). Alexander Volpin and the origins of the Soviet human rights movement. Washington, D.C.: National Council for … 展开

• "Alexander Esenin-Volpin interview June 29, 1982". 29 June 1982. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) 展开