Anatole Katok | |
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Анатолий Борисович Каток | |
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| Born | August 9, 1944 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | April 30, 2018 (aged 73) Danville, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | Important contributions to ergodic theory and dynamical systems |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics – dynamical systems |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral advisor | Yakov Sinai |
Anatoly Borisovich Katok (Russian: Анатолий Борисович Каток; August 9, 1944 – April 30, 2018) was an American mathematician with Russian-Jewish[1] origins.[2] Katok was the director of the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University. His field of research was the theory of dynamical systems.[3][4][5]
- ^ Katok's emigration to the United States was prompted by anti-Jewish nature of Soviet Communism.
- ^ "Anatole Katok's obituary".
- ^ "Anatole Katok's CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-11-16. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
- ^ "Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry". Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
- ^ Brin, Michael; Hasselblatt, Boris; Pesin, Yakov (2004). Modern Dynamical Systems and Applications. Cambridge University Press. pp. Introduction. ISBN 0521840732.