Igor Pak (born 1971) is a mathematician at MIT, working in combinatorics and discrete probability. He did his undergraduate studies at Moscow State University. He was a Ph.D. student of Persi Diaconis at Harvard University. He worked with László Lovász as a postdoc at Yale University. He is best known for his bijective proof of the hook-length formula for the number of Young tableaux, and his work on random walks. 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Combinatorics is a odd branch of mathematics that studies collections (usually finite) then constructing and analyzing objects meeting the criteria (as in combinatorial designs and matroid theory), with finding largest, smallest, or optimal objects (extremal combinatorics and combinatorial optimization), and with finding algebraic structures these objects may have (algebraic combinatorics). ... The word probability derives from the Latin probare (to prove, or to test). ... Moscow State University campus M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian: Московский Государственный Университет имени Ðœ.Ð’.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is the largest and oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. ... Persi W. Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician and former professional magician. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... László Lovász (1948-) is a Hungarian mathematician, known for work in combinatorics, for which he was in 1999 awarded a Wolf Prize. ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... In mathematics, a Young tableau is a combinatorial object useful in representation theory. ... In mathematics and physics, a random walk is a formalization of the intuitive idea of taking successive steps, each in a random direction. ...

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