Anatoly Vershik

Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik (Russian: Анато́лий Моисе́евич Ве́ршик; born on 28 December 1933 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is most famous for his joint work with Sergei V. Kerov on representations of infinite symmetric groups and applications to the longest increasing subsequences.

Biography

Vershik studied at Leningrad State University, receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was Vladimir Rokhlin.[1]

He works at the 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.[2] In 2015, he has been elected a member of Academia Europaea.

gollark: So what's f(3), then?

gollark: > ffsThat is literally what the notation means, so complain to the president of maths, not me.

gollark: Yeeeees.

gollark: You are not solving f(x)=4, you just want to know what happens if x is 4 inside the function.

gollark: ... no.

Vladimir Arnold, Mikhail Sh. Birman, Israel Gelfand, 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.

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