Sergei Tabachnikov, also spelled Serge, (born in 1956) is an American mathematician who works in

geometry Geometry (; ) is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. Geometry is, along with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. A mathematician w ...

and

dynamical system In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a Function (mathematics), function describes the time dependence of a Point (geometry), point in an ambient space, such as in a parametric curve. Examples include the mathematical models ...

s. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsyl ...

Biography

He earned his Ph.D. from

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

in 1987 under the supervision of Dmitry Fuchs and Anatoly Fomenko. He has been living and working in the USA since 1990. 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 since 2010 by a grant from the National Science Foundation. About 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 has served 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 ...

'', and is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the '' Arnold Mathematical Journal'' and as co-Editor-in-Chief of the ''

Mathematical Intelligencer ''The Mathematical Intelligencer'' is a mathematical journal published by Springer Science+Business Media that aims at a conversational and scholarly tone, rather than the technical and specialist tone more common among academic journals. Volumes ...

''. A paper on the

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

by Theodore Hill and Tabachnikov was accepted and retracted by ''The Mathematical Intelligencer'' and later ''

The New York Journal of Mathematics The ''New York Journal of Mathematics'' is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on algebra, analysis, geometry and topology. Its editorial board, , consists of 17 university-affiliated scholars in addition to the Editor-in-chief. Articles in the ''New ...

'' (''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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tabachnikov, Sergei Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 1956 births Living people Moscow State University alumni Dynamical systems theorists American topologists Russian expatriates in the United States Pennsylvania State University faculty