Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik (; 28 December 1933 – 14 February 2024) was a

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and Russian mathematician. He is most famous for his joint work with Sergei V. Kerov on

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of infinite

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s and applications to the

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Biography

Vershik studied at Leningrad State University (later renamed to

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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

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. In 2012, Vershik became a fellow of the

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. In 2015, he was elected a member of

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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 Sergey Vladimirovich Fomin (Сергей Владимирович Фомин) (born 16 February 1958 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian American mathematician who has made important contributions in combinatorics and its relations with al ...

, 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.

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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
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'' vol. 16, No. 4, (1994), 4–5.

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Vershik's personal home page
at St. Petersburg Department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute *
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 {{Russia-scientist-stub

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