Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko (; born 13 March 1945 in

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) is a

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and

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n professor of

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. He is well-known as a

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and member of the

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. He is a painter and illustrator of original artworks inspired by

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objects and structures. Fomenko is also widely known as a

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. He originated a fictitious and

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history called New Chronology, based on works of Russian-Soviet writer

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Biography

Fomenko is the son of Timothy Grigorievich Fomenko (Russian: Тимофей Григорьевич Фоме́нко), an industrial engineer, and Valentina Polikarpovna (née Markova) (Russian: Валентина Поликарповна Маркова), a

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and teacher of Russian language and literature. His parents would later co-author his works on New Chronology in 1983 and 1996. Born in what is now Donetsk, he was raised and schooled in

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. In 1959, his family returned to Eastern

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and settled in the city of

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, where Fomenko attended Secondary School No. 26. During secondary school, Fomenko participated in many competitions relating to mathematics and won several medals as a result. Also in 1959, the magazine ''

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'' (Russian: Пионерская правда, ''Pioneer Truth'') published his first known science fiction story, "The Mystery of the

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". Fomenko graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of

in 1967. In 1969, he began studying

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in the same department. In 1970, he defended his thesis "Classification of totally

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manifolds realizing nontrivial cycles in Riemannian homogeneous spaces", and in 1972 defended his doctoral thesis, "The decision of the multidimensional plateau problems on

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s." In December 1981, he became a professor of Higher Geometry and Topology, and in 1992, was appointed as head of Differential Geometry and Applications in the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at

Mathematical work

Fomenko developed the theory of topological invariants of an integrable

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. He is the author of 180 scientific publications and 26 textbooks (including monographs) on mathematics. Fomenko is a specialist in geometry and topology,

variational calculus The calculus of variations (or variational calculus) is a field of mathematical analysis that uses variations, which are small changes in functions and functionals, to find maxima and minima of functionals: mappings from a set of functions t ...

symplectic topology Symplectic geometry is a branch of differential geometry and differential topology that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form. Symplectic geometry has its origins in the ...

, Hamiltonian geometry and mechanics, and computational geometry. Fomenko has served as the editor of several Russian-language mathematics journals and is a member of many councils overseeing dissertations in his field. In 1996, he won the

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for excellence in mathematics. He is a full member (Academician) of the

(1994), the International Higher Education Academy of Sciences (1993), and the Russian Academy of Technological Sciences (2009). He is also a member of the

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(1991). Fomenko is the author of extensive writings in his original fields of mathematics, and is also known for his original drawings inspired by

objects and structures.

Historical revisionism

Fomenko is one of the authors of a concept that manipulates historical chronology called New Chronology. Fomenko claims that he has discovered new empirico-statistical methods and their application to determine that many historical events do not correspond with the dates on which they are supposed to have occurred. He asserts from this that all of ancient history (including the history of

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, and

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) is merely a reflection of events that occurred in the

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, and that all of Chinese and Arab history are fabrications of 17th- and 18th-century

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. Fomenko is the author and sometimes co-author of several books the analysis of historical chronicles as well as the chronology of antiquity and the Middle Ages. He also claims that

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lived in the 12th century A.D. and was crucified on

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; that the

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and the

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were the same historical event; and that

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and the

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were actually Russians, that the lands west of the

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that now constitute the

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and Middle West were a far eastern part of "Siberian-American Empire" prior to its disintegration in 1775, and many other claims that contradict conventional

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. As well as disputing written chronologies, Fomenko also disputes scientific dating techniques such as

dendrochronology Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of chronological dating, dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree. As well as dating them, this can give data for dendroclimatology, ...

and

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. His books include ''Empirico-statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and Its Applications'', and ''History: Fiction or Science?''. Most Russian scientists and worldwide historians consider Fomenko's historical works to be either

or antiscientific.

Artwork

Fomenko is a painter and illustrator whose work often depicts objects from mathematics, many related to

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Publications

Mathematical

* A.V.Bolsinov and A.T. Fomenko
Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Geometry, Topology, Classification (Hardcover)
* B. A. Dubrovin, S. P. Novikov, A.T. Fomenko ''Modern Geometry. Methods and Applications.'' Springer-Verlag
GTM 93, Part 1, 1984GTM 104, Part 2, 1985
Part 3, 1990, GTM 124. * A.T. Fomenko, V. V. Trofimov ''Integrable Systems on Lie Algebras and Symmetric Spaces''. Gordon and Breach, 1987. * A.T. Fomenko ''Differential Geometry and Topology'' Plenum Publishing Corporation. 1987. USA, Consultants Bureau, New York and London. * A.T. Fomenko
Integrability and Nonintegrability in Geometry and Mechanics
'. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1988. * A.T. Fomenko ''Tensor and Vector Analysis: Geometry, Mechanics and Physics''. – Taylor and Francis, 1988. * A.T. Fomenko ''Symplectic Geometry. Methods and Applications.'' Gordon and Breach, 1988. Second edition 1995. * A.T. Fomenko, S. P. Novikov
The basic elements of differential geometry and topology
'. Kluwer Acad. Publishers, The Netherlands, 1990. * A.T. Fomenko, Richard Lipkin, ''Mathematical Impressions'',

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, 1990, 184 pp. * A.T. Fomenko ''The Plateau Problem'' (vols. 1, 2). Gordon and Breach, 1990. (Studies in the Development of Modern Mathematics.) * A.T. Fomenko ''Variational Principles of Topology. Multidimensional Minimal Surface Theory''. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1990. * A.T. Fomenko ''Topological variational problems''. – Gordon and Breach, 1991. * A.T. Fomenko, Dao Chong Thi
Minimal surfaces and Plateau problem
'' USA, American Mathematical Society, 1991. * A.T. Fomenko, A.A.Tuzhilin
Geometry of Minimal Surfaces in Three-Dimensional Space
'. USA, American Mathematical Society. In: Translation of Mathematical Monographs. vol.93, 1991. * A.T. Fomenko
Topological Classification of Integrable Systems
'. Advances in Soviet Mathematics, vol. 6. USA, American Mathematical Society, 1991. * A.T. Fomenko
Visual geometry and topology
'. Springer-Verlag, 1994. * A.T. Fomenko, S.V.Matveev
Algorithmic and Computer Methods for Three-Manifolds
'. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1997. * A.T. Fomenko, T.L. Kunii
Topological Modeling for Visualization
'. – Springer-Verlag, 1997. * A.T. Fomenko, A. V. Bolsinov
Integrable Hamiltonian Systems: Geometry, Topology, Classification
'. Taylor and Francis, 2003. * A.T. Fomenko, D. B. Fuchs
Homotopical Topology
'. Springer. Second edition, GTM 273, 2016.

Pseudohistorical

* Fomenko A.T. «Some new empirico–statistical methods of dating and the analysis of present global chronology»,— London: The British Library, Department of printed books. Cup. 918/87, 1981. * A.T. Fomenko, V. V Kalashnikov., G. V. Nosovsky ''Geometrical and Statistical Methods of Analysis of Star Configurations. Dating Ptolemy's Almagest.'' – CRC-Press, USA, 1993. * A.T. Fomenko
Empirico-Statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and its Applications to Historical Dating
Vol.1: The Development of the Statistical Tools. Vol.2: The Analysis of Ancient and Medieval Records.'' – Kluwer Academic Publishers. The Netherlands, 1994. * A.T. Fomenko ''New Methods of Statistical Analysis of Historical Texts. Applications to Chronology. Antiquity in the Middle Ages. Greek and Bible History''. Vols.1, 2, 3. –

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, 1999. * Fomenko A.T. «Antiquity in the Middle Ages. Greek and Bible History»,

, (Scholarly Monographs in the Russian Language), 1999. * A.T. Fomenko ''et al.''
History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 1
''Introducing the problem. A criticism of the Scaligerian chronology. Dating methods as offered by mathematical statistics. Eclipses and zodiacs.'' * A.T. Fomenko ''et al.''
History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2
''The dynastic parallelism method. Rome. Troy. Greece. The Bible. Chronological shifts.'' * A.T. Fomenko ''et al.''
History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 3
''Astronomical methods as applied to chronology. Ptolemy’s Almagest. Tycho Brahe. Copernicus. The Egyptian zodiacs.'' * Nosovsky G.V., Fomenko А.Т. «Russia. Britain. Byzantium. Rome. History: Fiction or Science? Chronology vol. IV»,— Paris, London, New York: Mithec, Delamere Resources LLC, 2008, 727 pp.

References

External links

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Extra-mathematical associations in mathematical images

New Chronology official site (English language)

New Chronology analysis and criticism (Russian language)
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