Anatoly Vershik
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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.
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. He is currently the president of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society.
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- 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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