Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko (russian: Анато́лий Тимофе́евич Фоме́нко) (born 13 March 1945 in

Stalino Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: cities' alternative names), is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine loca ...

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) is a

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and

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, professor at

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, well-known as a

topologist In mathematics, topology (from the Greek words , and ) is concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing h ...

, and a member of the

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. He is the author of a fictitious

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history known as New Chronology, based on works of Russian-Soviet writer

Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Моро́зов; 7 July 1854, Borok – 30 July 1946) was a Russian revolutionary who spent about 25 years in prison for revolutionary activities against ...

. He is also a member of the

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(1991).

Biography

Fomenko is the son of Timothy Grigorievich Fomenko (Russian: Тимофей Григорьевич Фоме́нко), an industrial engineer, and Valentina Polikarpovna (née Markova) (Russian: Валентина Поликарповна Маркова), a

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

and teacher of Russian language and literature. His parents would later co-author his works on history in 1983 and 1996. Born in

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: Names of European cities in different languages (C–D), cities' alternat ...

, then called Stalino, he was raised and schooled in

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. In 1959, his family returned to Eastern

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and settled in the city of

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, where Fomenko attended Secondary School No. 26. During secondary school, Fomenko participated in many competitions relating to mathematics and won several medals as a result. Also in 1959, the magazine "Pionyerskaya pravda" (Russian: Пионерская правда, ''Pioneer Truth'') published his first known science fiction story, "The Mystery of the

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". Fomenko graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of

in 1967, and in 1969 began working in the department of

differential geometry Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multili ...

in said faculty. In 1970 he defended his thesis "Classification of totally

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manifolds realizing nontrivial cycles in Riemannian homogeneous spaces", and in 1972 defended his doctoral thesis, "The decision of the multidimensional Plateau problems on Riemannian manifolds." In December 1981 he became a professor of the department of higher geometry and

topology In mathematics, topology (from the Greek language, Greek words , and ) is concerned with the properties of a mathematical object, geometric object that are preserved under Continuous function, continuous Deformation theory, deformations, such ...

, and in 1992 became the head of the department of differential geometry. Fomenko has served as the editor of several Russian-language mathematics journals and is a member of many councils overseeing dissertations in his field. In 1996, he won the

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for excellence in mathematics.

Mathematical work

Fomenko is a full member (Academician) of the

(1994), the International Higher Education Academy of Sciences (1993) and Russian Academy of Technological Sciences (2009), as well as a doctor of physics and mathematics (1972), a professor (1980), and head of the Differential Geometry and Applications Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics in

(1992). Fomenko is the author of the theory of topological invariants of an integrable

Hamiltonian system A Hamiltonian system is a dynamical system governed by Hamilton's equations. In physics, this dynamical system describes the evolution of a physical system such as a planetary system or an electron in an electromagnetic field. These systems can b ...

. He is the author of 180 scientific publications, 26 monographs and textbooks on mathematics, a specialist in geometry and topology,

variational calculus The calculus of variations (or Variational Calculus) is a field of mathematical analysis that uses variations, which are small changes in functions and functionals, to find maxima and minima of functionals: mappings from a set of functions t ...

symplectic topology Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form. Symplectic geometry has its origins in the H ...

, Hamiltonian geometry and mechanics, and

computational geometry Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems ar ...

. Fomenko is also the author of a number of books on the development of new empirico-statistical methods and their application to the analysis of historical chronicles as well as the chronology of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Fomenko is the author of extensive writings in his original fields of mathematics, and is also known for his original drawings inspired by

topological In mathematics, topology (from the Greek words , and ) is concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing h ...

objects and structures.

Historical revisionism

Fomenko is one of authors of a concept that manipulates historical chronology. It is known as New Chronology. Fomenko claims that he has discovered that many historical events do not correspond mathematically with the dates on which they are supposed to have occurred. He asserts from this that all of ancient history (including the history of

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, and

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

) is just a reflection of events that occurred in the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

and that all of Chinese and Arab history are fabrications of 17th and 18th century

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. He also claims that

Jesus Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

lived in the 12th century A.D. and was crucified on

Joshua's Hill Joshua's Hill ( tr, Yuşa Tepesi or Hazreti Yuşa Tepesi), a hill located on the Anatolian shore of Bosporus in Beykoz district of Istanbul, Turkey is a shrine containing a mosque and a tomb dedicated to Yusha ( tr, Hazreti Yuşa). The sacred p ...

; that the

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and the

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were the same historical event; and that

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and the

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were actually Russians, that the lands west of the

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that now constitute the

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and Middle West were a far eastern part of "Siberian-American Empire" prior to its disintegration in 1775, and many other theories, that contradict the conventional historiography. As well as disputing written chronologies, Fomenko also disputes scientific dating techniques such as

dendrochronology Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed. As well as dating them, this can give data for dendroclimatology, the study of climate and atmos ...

and

radiocarbon dating Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon. The method was dev ...

(see

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for an examination of the latter criticism). His books include ''Empirico-statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and Its Applications'' and '' History: Fiction or Science?''. Most Russian scientists and worldwide historians consider Fomenko's historical works to be either

or antiscientific.

Artwork

Fomenko is an accomplished painter and illustrator whose work often depicts objects from mathematics, many related to

Publications

Mathematical

* A.V.Bolsinov and A.T. Fomenko
Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Geometry, Topology, Classification (Hardcover)
* B. A. Dubrovin, S. P. Novikov, A.T. Fomenko ''Modern Geometry. Methods and Applications.'' Springer-Verlag, GTM 93, Part 1, 1984; GTM 104, Part 2, 1985. Part 3, 1990, GTM 124. * A.T. Fomenko, V. V. Trofimov ''Integrable Systems on Lie Algebras and Symmetric Spaces''. Gordon and Breach, 1987. * A.T. Fomenko ''Differential Geometry and Topology'' Plenum Publishing Corporation. 1987. USA, Consultants Bureau, New York and London. * A.T. Fomenko ''Integrability and Nonintegrability in Geometry and Mechanics''. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1988. * A.T. Fomenko ''Tensor and Vector Analysis: Geometry, Mechanics and Physics''. – Taylor and Francis, 1988. * A.T. Fomenko ''Symplectic Geometry. Methods and Applications.'' Gordon and Breach, 1988. Second edition 1995. * A.T. Fomenko, S. P. Novikov ''The basic elements of differential geometry and topology''. Kluwer Acad. Publishers, The Netherlands, 1990. *''Mathematical Impressions'', by A. T. Fomenko and Richard Lipkin,

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, 1990, 184 pp. * A.T. Fomenko ''The Plateau Problem'' (vols. 1, 2). Gordon and Breach, 1990. (Studies in the Development of Modern Mathematics.) * A.T. Fomenko ''Variational Principles of Topology. Multidimensional Minimal Surface Theory''. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1990. * A.T. Fomenko ''Topological variational problems''. – Gordon and Breach, 1991. * A.T. Fomenko, Dao Chong Thi ''Minimal surfaces and Plateau problem.'' USA, American Mathematical Society, 1991. * A.T. Fomenko, A.A.Tuzhilin ''Geometry of Minimal Surfaces in Three-Dimensional Space''. USA, American Mathematical Society. In: Translation of Mathematical Monographs. vol.93, 1991. * A.T. Fomenko ''Topological Classification of Integrable Systems''. Advances in Soviet Mathematics, vol. 6. USA, American Mathematical Society, 1991. * A.T. Fomenko ''Visual geometry and topology''. Springer-Verlag, 1994. * A.T. Fomenko, S.V.Matveev ''Algorithmic and Computer Methods for Three-Manifolds''. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1997. * A.T. Fomenko, T.L. Kunii ''Topological Modeling for Visualization''. – Springer-Verlag, 1997. * A.T. Fomenko, A. V. Bolsinov ''Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Geometry, Topology, Classification''. Taylor and Francis, 2003.

Pseudohistorical

* Fomenko A.T. «Some new empirico–statistical methods of dating and the analysis of present global chronology»,— London: The British Library, Department of printed books. Cup. 918/87, 1981. * A.T. Fomenko, V. V Kalashnikov., G. V. Nosovsky ''Geometrical and Statistical Methods of Analysis of Star Configurations. Dating Ptolemy's Almagest.'' – CRC-Press, USA, 1993. * A.T. Fomenko
Empirico-Statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and its Applications to Historical Dating
Vol.1: The Development of the Statistical Tools. Vol.2: The Analysis of Ancient and Medieval Records.'' – Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Netherlands, 1994. * A.T. Fomenko ''New Methods of Statistical Analysis of Historical Texts. Applications to Chronology. Antiquity in the Middle Ages. Greek and Bible History''. Vols.1, 2, 3. –

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, 1999. * Fomenko A.T. «Antiquity in the Middle Ages. Greek and Bible History»,

, (Scholarly Monographs in the Russian Language), 1999. * A.T. Fomenko ''et al.''
History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 1
''Introducing the problem. A criticism of the Scaligerian chronology. Dating methods as offered by mathematical statistics. Eclipses and zodiacs.'' * A.T. Fomenko ''et al.''
History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2
''The dynastic parallelism method. Rome. Troy. Greece. The Bible. Chronological shifts.'' * A.T. Fomenko ''et al.''
History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 3
''Astronomical methods as applied to chronology. Ptolemy’s Almagest. Tycho Brahe. Copernicus. The Egyptian zodiacs.'' * Nosovsky G.V., Fomenko А.Т. «Russia. Britain. Byzantium. Rome. History: Fiction or Science? Chronology vol. IV»,— Paris, London, New York: Mithec, Delamere Resources LLC, 2008, 727 pp.

References

External links

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Extra-mathematical associations in mathematical images

New Chronology official site (English language)

New Chronology analysis and criticism (Russian language)
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