Vershik studied at Leningrad State University (later renamed to
Saint Petersburg State University), receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was
Vladimir Rokhlin. Vershik worked at the
St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics and at Saint Petersburg State University. In 1998–2008, he was the president of the
St. Petersburg Mathematical Society. In 2012, Vershik became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society. In 2015, he was elected a member of
Academia Europaea. His doctoral students include
Alexander Barvinok,
Dmitri Burago,
Anna Erschler,
Sergey Fomin, Vadim Kaimanovich,
Sergei Kerov, Alexander N. Livshits, Andrei Lodkin, Nikolai Mnev, and Natalia Tsilevich. Anatoly Vershik died on 14 February 2024, at the age of 90. == See also ==