Background
Vassiliev, Victor Anatolievich was born on April 10, 1956 in Moscow. Son of Anatoly Mikhailovich and Maya Vladimirovna (Aussem) Vassiliev.
mathematician university professor topologist
Vassiliev, Victor Anatolievich was born on April 10, 1956 in Moscow. Son of Anatoly Mikhailovich and Maya Vladimirovna (Aussem) Vassiliev.
Master of Science, Moscow State University, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, Moscow State University, 1982. Doctor of Science, Steklov Mathematics Institute, Moscow, 1992.
He is best known for his discovery of the Vassiliev invariants in knot theory (also known as finite type invariants), which subsume many previously discovered polynomial knot invariants such as the Jones polynomial. He also works on singularity theory, topology, computational complexity theory, integral geometry, symplectic geometry, partial differential equations (geometry of wavefronts), complex analysis, combinatorics, and Picard–Lefschetz theory. From 1981 to 1987 he was Senior Researcher at the Documents and Archives Research Institute, Moscow and a part-time mathematics teacher at Specialized Mathematical School Number.
57, Moscow.
From 1987 to 1989 he was Senior Researcher at the Statistical Information Systems Research Institute in Moscow. From 1989 to 1990 he was Senior Researcher at the Department of Functional Analysis in the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow. From 1990 to 1995 he was Leading Researcher at the Department of Mathematics in the Research Institute for System Studies in Moscow.
Since 1991 he has been professor at the Mathematics College of the Independent Moscow University.
Since 1997 he has been Principal Researcher in the Department of Geometry and Topology at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris VII, and at the Mathematical Science Research Institute (MSRI) at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a visiting fellow commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge in October–December 2000.
He is vice-chief editor of the Journal Functional Analysis and its Applications, a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Health and Safety Executive, and the president of the Moscow Mathematical Society. In 1994 he was an invited speaker at the International Mathematical Congress in Zürich (Plenary Address).
On 21 February 2014 he together with other protesters against Bolotnaya Square case was arrested near Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow.
On 5 March 2014 he among the other protesters was sentenced by Zamoskvoretsky Court to 10 thousand roubles fine for "resisting police". Vassiliev is married, with three children.
In 1982 he defended his Kandidat nauk thesis under Vladimir Arnold and received the title of Doktor nauk in 1992.
Member of International Mathematics Union (member executive committee since 2004), American Mathematics Society, Russian Academy of Sciences (chairman commission teaching mathematics in schools since 2004), Moscow Mathematics Society (board directors since 1992, president 2004).
Married Tatiana Yurievna Vassilieva, April 16, 1994. Children: Maria, Fedor, Ivan.