Anatoly Vershik

Anatoly Vershik
Anatoli Vershik en 2014.
Born	28 December 1933  Saint Petersburg
Died	14 February 2024  (aged 90)
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University
Awards	Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012, 2013)

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.

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. In 2015, he has been elected a member of Academia Europaea.

His doctoral students include Alexander Barvinok, Dmitri Burago, Anna Erschler, and Sergey Fomin.

See also

• Bratteli–Vershik diagram

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
  • Vershik's CV
• Anatoly Vershik at the Mathematics Genealogy Project