Anatole Katok

Anatole Katok
Анатолий Борисович Каток
Born(1944-08-09)August 9, 1944
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedApril 30, 2018(2018-04-30) (aged 73)
Danville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materMoscow State University
Known forImportant contributions to ergodic theory and dynamical systems
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics – dynamical systems
Institutions
  • Moscow State University
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Pennsylvania State University
Doctoral advisor
Yakov Sinai

Anatoly Borisovich Katok (Russian: Анатолий Борисович Каток; August 9, 1944 – April 30, 2018) was an American mathematician with Russian-Jewish origins. 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.

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