Biography:Anatoly Vershik
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Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik (Russian: Анато́лий Моисе́евич Ве́ршик; born on 28 December 1933 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russia n mathematician. He is most famous for his joint work with Sergei V. Kerov on representations of infinite symmetric groups and applications to the longest increasing subsequences.
Biography
Vershik studied at Leningrad State University, receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was Vladimir Rokhlin.[1]
He works at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics and at Saint Petersburg State University. In 1998–2008, he was the president of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society.
In 2012, Vershik became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2] In 2015, he has been elected a member of Academia Europaea. [3]
His doctoral students include Alexander Barvinok, Dmitri Burago, Anna Erschler, and Sergey Fomin.
See also
References
Bibliography
- Vladimir Arnold, Mikhail Sh. Birman, Israel Gelfand, et al., "Anatolii Moiseevich Vershik (on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday", Russian Math. Surveys 49:3 (1994), 207–221.
- Anatoly Vershik, Admission to the mathematics faculty in Russia in the 1970s and 1980s, Mathematical Intelligencer vol. 16, No. 4, (1994), 4–5.
External links
- Vershik's personal home page at St. Petersburg Department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute
- Anatoly Vershik at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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