Anatoly Timofejewitsch Fomenko

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Anatoly Fomenko ( Russian Анатолий Тимофеевич Фоменко , scientific. Transliteration Anatoly Timofeevic Fomenko * 13. March 1945 in Donetsk ) is a Russian mathematician and professor at the Moscow State University in Moscow , who with his chronology critical project New chronology was known, but why is also controversial.

Career

Fomenko studied from 1962 to 1967 at the Mechanical-Mathematical Faculty of Moscow State University and subsequently worked there at the Faculty of Differential Geometry . His work for candidates of sciences (PhD thesis, "small doctorate") from 1970 was titled Full geodetic circle models ( Вполне геодезические модели циклов ); In 1972 he defended his doctoral thesis (postdoctoral thesis, “major doctoral thesis”) on the subject of solving the multidimensional plateau problem in a Riemannian manifold ( Решение многомерной проблемы Плато на римановых бранагых браназых ).

1980 Fomenko was professor of higher geometry and topology at Lomonosov University; In 1992 he became head of the chair for differential geometry and related areas. In March 1994 he was accepted as a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . He worked on differential geometry, topology and the calculus of variations and is the author of several well-known textbooks, some of which also express his artistic talent - Fomenko is also a painter.

In 1974 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver (Multidimensional Plateau Problem on Riemannian Manifolds, On the problem of the algorithmic recognizability of the standard three dimensional sphere).

New chronology

Anatoli T. Fomenko also became known for his theses on historical research, which he is promoting as part of the New Chronology project . In doing so, he took up older ideas from Nikolai Morosow in Russia, like the mathematician Mikhail Postnikow before . Essentially, his thesis is that the dating of the Christian era in the 16th century was largely incorrectly established. As a result, the history of the last 2000 years has to be shortened by a good 1000 years. Fomenko bases his criticism of chronology on astronomical calculations and indirect statistical methods.

Fomenko's books on the New Chronology have been translated from Russian into English and published since the 1990s . One of Fomenko's strong supporters is the Swiss historian and journalist Christoph Pfister , whose historical analytical work The Matrix of Ancient History is significantly influenced by Fomenko's findings. Opponents accuse Fomenko not only of methodological deficiencies but also of the perspective in his writings, which is described as Russian nationalist content. One of Fomenko's sharpest critics in Russia was the linguist Andrei Salisnjak (1935–2017, Russian Андрей Анатольевич Зализняк , English transcription Zalizniak).

Fonts

Mathematical writings

  • with VV Trofinov: Integrable systems on Lie algebras and symmetric spaces. 1987.
  • with Dmitry B. Fuks , Viktor L. Gutenmacher: Homotopic topology. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1986, ISBN 963-05-3544-0 .
  • Differential geometry and topology. 1987.
  • Integrability and Nonintegrability in Geometry and Mechanics. 1988.
  • The Plateau Problem, Part I & II, Studies in the development of modern mathematics. Vol. 1. Gordon and Breach, New York 1990.
  • Mathematical Impressions. 1990.
  • Variational problems in topology. 1990.
  • with Boris Dubrovin , Sergei Nowikow : Modern geometry. 3 volumes. Springer, Tokyo a. a. 1985.
  • with Sergei Nowikow: Basic elements of differential geometry and topology. 1990.

Work on chronology

  • with VV Kalashnikov and GV Nosovsky: Geometrical and Statistical Methods of Analysis of Star Configurations. Dating of Ptolemy's Almagest. 1993.
  • Empirico-Statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and its Applications to Historical Dating. 1994.
    • Volume 1: The Development of the Statistical Tools.
    • Volume 2: The Analysis of Ancient and Medieval Records.
  • History: Fiction or Science? Dating methods as offered by mathematical statistics. Eclipses and zodiacs. Chronology 1. Delamere Resources, Paris 2003.
  • History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2. Delamere Resources, Paris 2005.
  • History: Fiction or Science? Astronomical methods as applied to chronology. Ptolemy's Almagest. Chronology 3. Delamere Resources, Paris 2007.
  • History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 4. Delamere Resources, Paris 2008.

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. Christoph Pfister: The matrix of ancient history. Analysis of a religious historical invention . 2nd revised edition. Norderstedt: Books on Demand 2006.
  2. Mischa Gabowitsch (Paris 2000): Fomenko and the "New Chronology". http://www.ilya.it/chrono/dtpages/fomenkokritikdt.html
  3. Konstantin Sheiko: Lomonosov's Bastards: Anatolii Fomenko, Pseudo-History and Russia's Search for a Post-Communist Identity. ( Memento from August 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Dissertation. Wollongong 2004. (English)