Sergey Fomin

Sergey Fomin
Born (1958-02-16) 16 February 1958
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University (Ph.D., M.Sc)
Known forCluster algebras
AwardsLeroy P. Steele Prize (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMichigan
MIT (1992–2000)
Thesis Rates of Convergence in Multidimensional Central Limit Theorem  (1982)
Doctoral advisorAnatoly Vershik
Leonid Osipov

Sergey Vladimirovich Fomin (Сергей Владимирович Фомин) (born 16 February 1958 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Russian American mathematician who has made important contributions in combinatorics and its relations with algebra, geometry, and representation theory. Together with Andrei Zelevinsky, he introduced cluster algebras.