Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik (russian: Анато́лий Моисе́евич Ве́ршик; born on 28 December 1933 in
Leningrad) is a
Soviet and
Russian
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
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, receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was
Vladimir Rokhlin.
He works at the
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
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and at
Saint Petersburg State University
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. In 1998–2008 he was the president of the
St. Petersburg Mathematical Society
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Historical notes
The St. Petersburg Mathe ...
.
In 2012 Vershik became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society.
List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-08-29.
In 2015, he has been elected a member of Academia Europaea.
His doctoral students include Alexander Barvinok
Alexander I. Barvinok (born March 27, 1963) is a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan.
Barvinok received his Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State University in 1988 under the supervision of Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik.
In 1999 Barvi ...
, Dmitri Burago
Dmitri Yurievich Burago (Дмитрий Юрьевич Бураго, born 1964) is a Russian mathematician, specializing in geometry.
He is the son of the professor of mathematics in Leningrad Yuri Dmitrievich Burago, with whom he also published a ...
, Anna Erschler, and Sergey Fomin
Sergey Vladimirovich Fomin (Сергей Владимирович Фомин) (born 16 February 1958 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian American mathematician who has made important contributions in combinatorics and its relations with al ...
.
See also
*Bratteli–Vershik diagram In mathematics, a Bratteli–Veršik diagram is an ordered, essentially simple Bratteli diagram (''V'', ''E'') with a homeomorphism on the set of all infinite paths called the Veršhik transformation. It is named after Ola Bratteli and Anatoly ...
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
''The Mathematical Intelligencer'' is a mathematical journal published by Springer Verlag that aims at a conversational and scholarly tone, rather than the technical and specialist tone more common among academic journals. Volumes are released quar ...
'' vol. 16, No. 4, (1994), 4–5.
External links
Vershik's personal home page
at St. Petersburg Department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute
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Vershik's CV
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1933 births
Living people
Soviet mathematicians
20th-century Russian mathematicians
21st-century Russian mathematicians
Mathematicians from Saint Petersburg
Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University
Combinatorialists
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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