About Anatoly Fomenko
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 pseudoscientific theory called New Chronology, based on works of Russian-Soviet writer Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov. During secondary school, Fomenko participated in many competitions relating to mathematics and won several medals as a result. Fomenko is the author of extensive writings in his original fields of mathematics, and is also known for his original drawings inspired by topological objects and structures. Fomenko claims that he has discovered new empirico-statistical methods and their application to determine that many historical events do not correspond with the dates on which they are supposed to have occurred. Also in 1959, the magazine Pionerskaya Pravda (Russian: Пионерская правда, Pioneer Truth) published his first known science fiction story, "The Mystery of the Milky Way".
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