Anatoly Fomenko

Anatoly Fomenko
Fomenko in 2012
Born (1945-03-13) 13 March 1945
Alma materMoscow State University
Occupation(s)Mathematician
Professor
EmployerMoscow State University
Known forNew Chronology
AwardsState 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.