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Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik (Russian: Анато́лий Моисе́евич Ве́ршик; 28 December 1933 – 14 February 2024) was 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, receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was Vladimir Rokhlin.
Vershik worked at the St. Petersburg Department of 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.
In 2015, he was elected a member of Academia Europaea.
His doctoral students include Alexander Barvinok, Dmitri Burago, Anna Erschler, Sergey Fomin, Vadim Kaimanovich, Sergei Kerov, Alexander N. Livshits, Andrei Lodkin, Nikolai Mnev, and Natalia Tsilevich.
Anatoly Vershik died on 14 February 2024, at the age of 90.
See also
Bratteli–Vershik diagram
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
Vershik's CV
Anatoly Vershik at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
- Anatoly Vershik
- Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
- Millennium Prize Problems
- Bratteli–Vershik diagram
- Representation theory of diffeomorphism groups
- 2024 in Russia
- Grigori Perelman
- Dmitri Burago
- Deaths in February 2024
- Mikhael Gromov (mathematician)
