University Life
Yaglom started his higher education at Moscow State University in 1938. During World War II he volunteered but due to myopia he was deferred from military service. In the evacuation of Moscow he went with his family to Sverdlovsk in the Urals. He studied at the Sverdlovsk State University, graduated in 1942, and when the usual Moscow faculty assembled in Sverdlovsk during the war, he took up graduate study. Under the geometer Veniamin Kagan he developed his Ph.D. thesis which he defended in Moscow in 1945. It is reported that this thesis "was devoted to projective metrics on a plane and their connections with different types of complex numbers a + jb (where jj = -1, or jj = +1, or else jj = 0)."
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