Iskander Asanovich Taimanov (born 20 December 1961, Искандер Асанович Тайманов) is a Russian mathematician whose research concerns geometry, calculus of variations, and soliton theory. He is the chair of the department of geometry and topology of Novosibirsk State University.
He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[1]
He was a Ph.D. student of Sergey Petrovich Novikov.[2]
Some topics of his work are Morse–Novikov theory and Willmore surfaces.[3][4][5]
He is the author of the textbook Lectures on Differential Geometry.[6]