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.
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| Born | 28 December 1933  (age 89) | 
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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. [3]
His doctoral students include Alexander Barvinok, Dmitri Burago, Anna Erschler, and Sergey Fomin.
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References
    
- Anatoly Vershik at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-29.
- "Academy of Europe: Anatoly Vershik". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
Bibliography
    
- 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.
External links
    
- Vershik's personal home page at St. Petersburg Department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute
- Anatoly Vershik at the Mathematics Genealogy Project