Anatoly Vershik
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Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik ' onMouseout='HidePop("82811")' href="/topics/Saint_Petersburg">Leningrad
) is a Soviet and Russia
n mathematician
. He is most famous for his joint work with Sergey V. Kerov on representations
of infinite
symmetric group
s and applications to the longest increasing subsequence
s.
Vershik studied at Leningrad State University
, receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was Vladimir Rokhlin.
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
.
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
) is a Soviet and Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
. He is most famous for his joint work with Sergey V. Kerov on representations
Representation theory
Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by representing their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studiesmodules over these abstract algebraic structures...
of infinite
Infinity
Infinity is a concept in many fields, most predominantly mathematics and physics, that refers to a quantity without bound or end. People have developed various ideas throughout history about the nature of infinity...
symmetric group
Symmetric group
In mathematics, the symmetric group Sn on a finite set of n symbols is the group whose elements are all the permutations of the n symbols, and whose group operation is the composition of such permutations, which are treated as bijective functions from the set of symbols to itself...
s and applications to the longest increasing subsequence
Longest increasing subsequence
The longest increasing subsequence problem is to find a subsequence of a given sequence in which the subsequence elements are in sorted order, lowest to highest, and in which the subsequence is as long as possible...
s.
Vershik studied at Leningrad State University
Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University is a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg and one of the oldest and largest universities in Russia....
, receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was Vladimir Rokhlin.
He works at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Steklov Institute of Mathematics or Steklov Mathematical Institute is a research institute based in Moscow, specialized in mathematics, and a part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was established April 24, 1934 by the decision of the General Assembly of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in...
and at Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University is a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg and one of the oldest and largest universities in Russia....
. In 1998-2008 he was the president of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society
St. Petersburg Mathematical Society
The St. Petersburg Mathematical Society is a society of St. Petersburg mathematicians. It was dissolved and subsequently revived twice, each time changing its name:* St. Petersburg Mathematical Society...
.
External links
- Personal home page at Petersburg Department of the Mathematical InstituteSt. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of SciencesThe St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences for "Петербургское отделение Математического института", Petersburg Department of the Mathematical Institute) is a mathematical research institute in St. Petersburg, part of the Russian Academy of...