Anatoly Fomenko
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Illustrations in black and white
- Introduction
- Sergey Alimov
- Aleksandr Bakulevsky
- Maria Baur
- Aleksandr Botvinov
- Kacper Bozek
- Carla Bull
- Aleksandr Fedorov
- Anatoly Fomenko
- Hans Fronius
- Slawka Gorna
- Aleksandr Ivanov
- Vladimir Janovsky
- Rezo Kaishauri
- Andrey Karapetyan
- Artyom Kolyadynsky
- Erika Latigan
- Boris Markevich
- Kseniya Morgunova
- Andrey Nabokov
- Natalia Narolina
- Gennady Novozhilov
- Pavel Orinyansky
- Victor Vasilevich Prokofiev
- Nadya Rusheva
- A.V. Rybjakov
- Valentina Sciutti
- Evgeny Shtyrov
- Laura the Shawl
- Charlie Stone
- Yuri Chistyakov
- Viktor Yefimenko
- Pavel Zablotski
- Vyacheslav Zhelvakov
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Anatoly Fomenko
Anatoly Fomenko
Biography
Anatoly Timefeevich Fomenko was born in Stalino (now known as Donetsk) in Ukraine 13/03/1945, and is a mathematician and a doctor of physics and mathematics (1972). He became professor at the Moscow State University in1980 and head of the Differential Geometry and Applications Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics in Moscow State University in 1992.
Fomenko is well-known as a topologist, a computer geometrist, and a supporter of drastically revising historical chronology. He has created his own revision called New Chronology, based on statistical correlations, dating of zodiacs, and by examining the mathematics and astronomy involved in chronology. Fomenko claims that he has discovered that many historical events do not correspond mathematically with the dates they are supposed to have occurred on. He asserts from this that all of ancient history (including the history of Greece, Rome, and Egypt) is just a reflection of events that occurred in the Middle Ages and that all of Chinese and Arab history are fabrications of 17th and 18th century Jesuits. He also claims that Jesus Christ lived in the 12th century A.D. and was crucified in 1083 on a place called Joshua's Hill, located in the Beykoz district of Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey.
As well as disputing written chronologies, Fomenko also disputes more objective dating techniques such as dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating. Most Russian scientists consider Fomenko's historical works to be pseudoscientific.
Anatoly Fomenko also feels the need for expressing abstract mathematical concepts through artwork. Since the mid-1970s, Fomenko has created more than 280 graphic works. Not only have his images filled pages of some of his own books on geometry, but they have also been chosen to illustrate books on other subjects by many other mathematicians. In addition, his works have found their way into the scientific and popular press and have been displayed in more than 100 exhibits in the Russia, USA, Canada, the Netherlands, India and much of Eastern Europe.
Fomenko's description of his art technique probably sounds unlike anything that most of us have ever previously heard or learned about drawing. He describes his work as Mathematical Art. “Many of my graphic works are based on mathematical ideas and theorems, either represent real physical processes and important mathematical concepts”, Fomenko says.