Anatole Katok
Anatole Katok | |
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Анатолий Борисович Каток | |
| 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 |
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| 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.