About the book: 2017 / The author of the book Nikita Nikolaevich Moiseev (1917–2000) is an outstanding mathematician and deep thinker. The scientist’s memoirs are written in a fascinating and colorful language, which does not interfere with the accuracy and clarity of the presentation◦ – the author’s mathematical mindset is honed by the experience of creating textbooks on systems analysis and dozens of popular books on the science of organization and management. The author reflects on the random and non-random circumstances of his choice of life path, which led him to big academic science and made him one of the creators of the PHYSTECH System. The pages dedicated to the 1990s are published based on the publication “Through the Wilds of the 20th Century,” published in Russian in Canada (1999), and tell about the fate of the scientist at the time of the collapse of the country’s governance system. With civil pain and conscientiousness of management specialist N.N. Moiseev describes these difficult moments of life... The book concludes with the essay “Milestones-2000” - an organic continuation of the conversation about the Russian intelligentsia, begun by outstanding Russian philosophers and writers in the collection “Milestones” at the beginning of the twentieth century.