May 15, 1979

Dear Andrei Petrovich!

Thank you for your letter of May 7 that I received yesterday. Your proposal is extremely flattering
and alluring. My main doubt is like this: what can I communicate in my presentation suggested by
you to 50 most prominent world specialists in the theory of algorithms who will gather in Urgench
that would be new and unknown to them? It must be admitted that for the time being I do not see an
easy way to remove these doubts – and at the same time wishing very much to be of some use in
Urgench.

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Yours,    V. Uspensky