Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik (; 28 December 1933 – 14 February 2024) was a
Soviet
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and Russian mathematician. He is most famous for his joint work with
Sergei V. Kerov on
representations of
infinite symmetric group
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s and applications to the
longest increasing subsequences.
Biography
Vershik studied at Leningrad State University (later renamed to
Saint Petersburg State University
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), 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
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.
In 2015, he was elected a member of
Academia Europaea
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.
His doctoral students include
Alexander Barvinok
Alexander I. Barvinok (born March 27, 1963) is a Russian American mathematician and 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 Anat ...
,
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
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Bratteli–Vershik diagram
References
Bibliography
*
Vladimir Arnold
Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (or Arnol'd; , ; 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems, and contributed to s ...
, Mikhail Sh. Birman,
Israel Gelfand
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israïl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (, , ; – 5 October 2009) was a prominent Soviet and American mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, biologist, teache ...
, 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 pageat
St. Petersburg Department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute
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Vershik's CV*
1933 births
2024 deaths
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
Members of Academia Europaea
Humboldt Research Award recipients
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