Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik (Russian: Анатолий Моисеевич Вершик) (born on 28 December 1933 in Leningrad) is a Russian mathematician. He is most famous for his joint work with Sergey V. Kerov on representations of infinite symmetric groups and applications to the longest increasing subsequences. December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and... Leonhard Euler is considered by many to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is the person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics. ... In mathematics Representation theory is the name given to the study of standard representations of abstract mathematical structures. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... In mathematics, the symmetric group on a set X, denoted by SX or Sym(X), is the group whose underlying set is the set of all bijective functions from X to X, in which the group operation is that of composition of functions, i. ... The longest increasing subsequence problem is to find the longest increasing subsequence of a given sequence. ...

Vershik studied at Leningrad State University, receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was Vladimir Rokhlin. Saint Petersburg State University (Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет) is one of the oldest Russian educational institutions, established in the city of Saint Petersburg on January 28, 1724 by a decree of Peter the Great. ... Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian: Владимир Абрамович Рохлин (August 23, 1919 - December 3, 1984) was one of the leading mathematicians of the USSR, working in the fields of topology, geometry and...

He works at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics and at Saint Petersburg State University. He is currently the president of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society. Steklov Institute of Mathematics or Steklov Mathematical Institute (Russian: Математический институт имени В.А.Стеклова) is a research institute specialized in Mathematics. ... Saint Petersburg State University (Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет) is one of the oldest Russian educational institutions, established in the city of Saint Petersburg on January 28, 1724 by a decree of Peter the Great. ... The St. ...

References

• 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.

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External links

• Personal home page at PDMI
  • Vershik's CV
• Anatoly Vershik at the Mathematics Genealogy Project