Sergei Tabachnikov, also spelled Serge, (in

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: Сергей Львович Табачников; born in 1956) is a Russian mathematician who works in

geometry Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is ...

and

dynamical system In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in ...

s. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

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 Dmitry Borisovich Fuchs (Дмитрий Борисович Фукс, born 30 September 1939, Kazan, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Russian-American mathematician, specializing in the representation theory of infinite-dimensional ...

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

Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), founded in 2011, is an American research institute in mathematics at Brown University, funded beginning in 2010 by a grant from the National Science Foundation. A ...

(ICERM) in

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. He is now Emeritus Deputy Director of ICERM. He is a fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

. He currently serves as Editor in Chief of the journal

Experimental Mathematics Experimental mathematics is an approach to mathematics in which computation is used to investigate mathematical objects and identify properties and patterns. It has been defined as "that branch of mathematics that concerns itself ultimately with th ...

.Experimental Mathematics: Editorial board
/ref> A paper on the

variability hypothesis The variability hypothesis, also known as the greater male variability hypothesis, is the hypothesis that males generally display greater variability in traits than females do. It has often been discussed in relation to human cognitive ability, w ...

by Theodore Hill and Tabachnikov was accepted and retracted by ''

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'' and later '' The New York Journal of Mathematics'' (''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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