Anatoly Vershik

Anatoly Vershik
Born28 December 1933 Edit this on Wikidata
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  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012, 2013) Edit this on Wikidata

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, 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.

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