Soviet and Russian mathematician Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik has sadly passed away. He was most famous for his joint work with Sergei V. Kerov on representations of infinite symmetric groups and applications to the longest increasing subsequences.
Anatoly Vershik Cause of death
Anatoly Vershik died on Wednesday, February 14, 2024, at the age of 90. There was no cause of death revealed.
Anatoly Vershik’s obituary information
Anatoly Vershik’s funeral arrangement has not been revealed yet and will soon be out.
Anatoly Vershik was born on December 28, 1933, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR. He studied at Leningrad State University, receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was Vladimir Rokhlin.
Anatoly Vershik worked at the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics and Saint Petersburg State University. In 1998–2008, he was the president of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society.
In 2012, Anatoly Vershik became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2015, he was elected a member of Academia Europaea.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
