Svetlana Katok

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Svetlana and Anatole Katok, Oberwolfach 2009

Svetlana Katok (born May 1, 1947 in Moscow ) is a Russian-American mathematician who deals with hyperbolic geometry , symmetric spaces , Fuchsian groups , number theory and dynamic systems . She has taught at Pennsylvania State University since 1990 .

Live and act

Svetlana Katok grew up as the daughter of the mathematical historian Boris Rosenfeld in Moscow . She decided to become a mathematician at the age of 13 and graduated from Lomonosov University in 1969 . Since she was refused a doctoral degree for political and anti-Semitic reasons, she initially worked as a mathematics teacher. In 1978 she emigrated to the USA and received her doctorate in 1983 from Don Zagier at the University of Maryland . Afterwards she was at several California universities, u. a. at Caltech and Berkeleybefore going to Pennsylvania State University in 1990, where she has been a professor since 1994. She is married to mathematician Anatole Katok (also a professor at Penn State) with whom she directs the MASS program for undergraduate students at Penn State.

Svetlana Katok originally dealt with dynamic systems and switched to work in the USA on the application of these theories in number theory and modular forms.

She has three children; her daughter Danya Katok is a soprano , Elena Katok is a professor of business administration .

In 2001 she received the Eberly College Distinguished Service Award and in 2004 she was a Noether Lecturer . She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

  • Fuchsian Groups. University of Chicago Press 1992.
  • -adic analysis compared to real. AMS / MASS, Providence 2007.
  • Editor with Tabachnikov, Alexei Sossinsky MASS Selecta-teaching and learning advanced undergraduate mathematics. AMS, Providence 2003 (therein: -adic analysis compared to real and Continued fractions, hyperbolic geometry and quadratic forms ).
  • with Anatole Katok, Sergej Tabachnikov: MASS Program at Penn State. Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 24, 2002, p. 50.
  • with Ilie Ugarcovici: Symbolic dynamics for the modular surface and beyond. Bulletin AMS, Vol. 44, 2007, No. 2, pp. 87-132.
  • Coding of closed geodescis after Gauss and Morse. Geometria Dedicata, Vol. 63, 1996, p. 123.
  • Closed geodesics, periods and arithmetic of modular forms. Inventiones Mathematicae , Vol. 80, 1985, p. 469.

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personal data
SURNAME Katok, Svetlana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow