Education
Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg State University.
mathematician university professor
Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg State University.
He is most famous for his joint work with Sergey V. Kerov on representations of infinite symmetric groups and applications to the longest increasing subsequences. Vershik studied at Leningrad State University, receiving his doctoral degree in 1974. His advisor was Vladimir Rokhlin.
He works at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics and at Saint St. Petersburg State University.
In 1998–2008 he was the president of the Saint St. Petersburg Mathematical Society. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
His doctoral students include Alexander Barvinok, Anna Erschler and Sergey Fomin.
American Mathematical Society.