Anatoly Fomenko
Mathematician, topologist, and originator of the pseudoscientific New Chronology theory.
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Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko is a Soviet and Russian professor of Mathematics at Moscow State University, a topologist, and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also a painter and illustrator of original artworks inspired by topological objects and structures. Beyond mathematics, he is widely known as a conspiracy theorist who originated a pseudoscientific theory called New Chronology, based on works of Russian-Soviet writer Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov.
Lore & Background
Anatoly Fomenko was born on 13 March 1945 in Stalino, USSR (now Donetsk), to Timothy Grigorievich Fomenko, an industrial engineer, and Valentina Polikarpovna Markova, a philologist and teacher of Russian language and literature. His parents would later co-author his works on New Chronology in 1983 and 1996. He was raised and schooled in Magadan.
In 1959, his family returned to Eastern Ukraine and settled in Luhansk, where Fomenko attended Secondary School No. 26. During secondary school, he participated in many mathematics competitions and won several medals. Also in 1959, the magazine Pionerskaya Pravda published his first known science fiction story, 'The Mystery of the Milky Way.' He graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Moscow State University in 1967.
In 1969, he began studying differential geometry in the same department. He defended his thesis 'Classification of totally geodesic manifolds realizing nontrivial cycles in Riemannian homogeneous spaces' in 1970, and his doctoral thesis 'The decision of the multidimensional plateau problems on Riemannian manifolds' in 1972. In December 1981, he became a professor of Higher Geometry and Topology, and in 1992, was appointed as head of Differential Geometry and Applications in the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at Moscow State University.
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