Anatoly Vershik

Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik was 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 subsequence]s.

Biography

Vershik studied at Leningrad State University, receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was Vladimir Rokhlin.
Vershik worked at the St. Petersburg Department of [Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences|St. Petersburg Department of 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 was elected a member of Academia Europaea.
His doctoral students include Alexander Barvinok, Dmitri Burago, Anna Erschler, Sergey Fomin, Vadim Kaimanovich, Sergei Kerov, Alexander N. Livshits, Andrei Lodkin, Nikolai Mnev, and Natalia Tsilevich.
Anatoly Vershik died on 14 February 2024, at the age of 90.