Anatoly Fomenko
Anatoly Fomenko | |
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Fomenko in 2012 | |
| Born | 13 March 1945 |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Occupation(s) | Mathematician Professor |
| Employer | Moscow State University |
| Known for | New Chronology |
| Awards | State Prize of the Russian Federation |
Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko (Russian: Анато́лий Тимофе́евич Фоме́нко; born 13 March 1945 in Stalino, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian professor of Mathematics at Moscow State University. He is well-known as a topologist and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a painter and illustrator of original artworks inspired by topological objects and structures.
Fomenko is also widely known as a conspiracy theorist. He originated a fictitious and pseudoscientific history called New Chronology, based on works of Russian-Soviet writer Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov.