Viktor Anatoljewitsch Wassiljew
Viktor Anatoljewitsch Wassiljew , Russian Виктор Анатольевич Васильев (also Viktor Wassiliew ; English transliteration Victor Vassiliev; born April 10, 1956 in Moscow ) is a Russian mathematician who is best known for his discovery of the Vassiliev invariants in the Knot theory .
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Vasilyev graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at Lomonosov University (Moscow) in 1981. From 1981 to 1987 he was a scientist at the Research Institute for Documents and Archives in Moscow and part-time mathematics teacher at a grammar school (specializing in mathematics). In 1982 he received his doctorate under Vladimir Arnold and received candidate status (called doctor) in 1992. From 1987 to 1989 he was at the Research Institute for Statistical Information Systems, 1989/90 at the Institute for Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and from 1990 to 1995 he was a senior scientist at the Research Institute for Systems Studies. Since 1991 he has been a professor at the Independent University of Moscow, where he has been leading a research seminar since 1997. He has also been at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics at the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1997 . He was visiting professor at the University of Paris VII, at the Mathematical Science Research Institute ( MSRI ), at the University of Berkeley and at Trinity College , Cambridge .
He is known as the discoverer of the Vassiliev invariants of nodes, which include many previously discovered polynomial invariants. It is an open question whether they include all node invariants . He also works in singularity theory , partial differential equations (geometry of wavefronts ), complexity theory , integral geometry , function theory , combinatorics , Picard-Lefschetz theory .
Wassiljew has been a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2003 (corresponding member since 1997). He is co-editor of the journal Functional Analysis and its Applications and on the Council of the Moscow Mathematical Society . In 1994 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich (plenary lecture: Topology of Discriminants and their Complements ). In 1985 he received the Moscow Mathematical Society Prize.
On February 21, 2014, Vasilyev was arrested along with other protesters against the Bolotnaya trial in Moscow. On March 5, 2014, like the others, he was sentenced to a fine of 10,000 rubles for "resisting the police".
He is married and has three children.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Wassiljew's assumption, although Wassiljew, according to Sossinsky, suspects the opposite. Interview with Sossinsky, pdf
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wassiljew, Viktor Anatoljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Васильев, Виктор Анатольевич (Russian); Viktor Vasiliev |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |