Sergei Tabachnikov, also spelled Serge, (in
Russian
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: Сергей Львович Табачников; born in 1956) is a Russian mathematician who works in
geometry
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and
dynamical system
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s. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at
Pennsylvania State University
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.
Biography
He earned his Ph.D. from
Moscow State University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
in 1987 under the supervision of
Dmitry Fuchs
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and
Anatoly Fomenko
Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko (russian: Анато́лий Тимофе́евич Фоме́нко) (born 13 March 1945 in Stalino, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian conspiracy theorist, mathematician, professor at Moscow State University, well-known as ...
.
From 2013 to 2015 Tabachnikov served as Deputy Director of the
(ICERM) in
Providence, Rhode Island
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. He is now Emeritus Deputy Director of ICERM.
He is a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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. He currently serves as Editor in Chief of the journal
Experimental Mathematics
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.
Experimental Mathematics: Editorial board
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A paper on the variability hypothesis
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It has often been discussed in relation to human cognitive ability, w ...
by Theodore Hill and Tabachnikov was accepted and retracted by ''The Mathematical Intelligencer
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'' and later ''The New York Journal of Mathematics
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'' (''NYJM''). There was some controversy over the mathematical model, the peer-review process, and the lack of an official retraction notice from the ''NYJM''.
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Russian mathematicians
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
1956 births
Living people
Moscow State University alumni
Dynamical systems theorists
Topologists
Russian expatriates in the United States
Pennsylvania State University faculty
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