Anatoly Vershik Biography
Vershik studied at Leningrad State University (later renamed to Saint Petersburg State University ), receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was Vladimir Rokhlin .[ 1]
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 St. Petersburg Mathematical Society .
In 2012, Vershik became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .[ 2] Academia Europaea .
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His doctoral students include Alexander Barvinok , Dmitri Burago , Anna Erschler , Sergey Fomin , Vadim Kaimanovich, Sergei Kerov , Alexander N. Livshits, Andrei Lodkin, Nikolai Mnev, and Natalia Tsilevich.
He had a daughter, Estonian linguist Anna Verschik .
Anatoly Vershik died on 14 February 2024, at the age of 90.[ 4] [ 5]
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 External links
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