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 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.

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

See also[]

• Bratteli–Vershik diagram

References[]

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[]

• Personal home page at Petersburg Department of the Mathematical Institute
  • Vershik's CV
• Anatoly Vershik at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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