А.Т. Фоменко

Он у нас на втором курсе весной читал дифгеом. Классно рисует и объясняет толково.

http://fatus.chat.ru/foma.htm
http://hbar.phys.msu.su/gorm/fomenko.htm

> Да мне бы подробнее о его математической науке узнать

http://www.ams.org/bull/pre-1996-data/199226-1/199226-1TOC.html:


Anatoli\u\i\ T. Fomenko is the most prominent mathematician in the Soviet Union working in higher dimensional minimal surface theory. The
book under review on area minimizing surfaces is a revised translation of his earlier volume Variational methods in topology (published in Russian in 1982) based on a course which he taught to undergraduate and graduate students at Moscow State University. In 1990 Fomenko published a two volume work,

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The reviewer has known Fomenko personally for more than two decades and still is at a loss to understand why he is not more responsible
in his mathematical claims. The following are two particular examples of concern.

The book cover states ``In this volume, the solution of the Plateau problem in the class of all manifolds with fixed boundary is given in detail...'' Fomenko made a similar claim in a lecture at and in the proceedings of the 1974 International Congress in Vancouver, in the introduction to a major paper (in Russian), and in an interview published in the Mathematical Intelligencer. His preface in the volume under review is ambiguous about this issue. In any case, the claim is not proved, as he acknowledges privately. It is not known at
present whether or not minimal surfaces of the type he studies are necessarily representable as continuous images of manifolds or even
as continuous images of sets of finite topological complexity. The only significant contributions to this representation problem are due to B. White \cite{W1, W2} who worked in a somewhat different mathematical context.

A second example occurs in \S8 of Chapter 2, entitled Solution of the
problem of finding globally minimal surfaces in each homotopy class of multivarifolds. Fomenko asserts ``\`Dao Ch\^ong Thi solved Plateau's problem by establishing the existence of a locally Lipschitz mapping $g_0\:W^k\to M^n$ in terms of currents, which minimizes the $k$-dimensional volume functional in the class of all locally Lipschitz mappings $g\:W\to M$ such that $g|_{\partial W}=f|_{\partial W}$ (the problem of finding the absolute minimum with respect
to all homotopy classes of multivarifolds).'' In fact,
Thi did not prove such a theorem in papers known to the reviewer since he did not establish a common Lipschitz constant to his sequence of mappings. Both the reviewer and others have pointed this out to Fomenko in person. Yet he again makes his claim!

Не советую к нему идти в ученики. Как научный руководитель он имеет слишком много недостатков. Главное - редко занимается учениками. Говорю по опыту близких знакомых еще из 90-х годов.

Не вижу основания доверять словам, за которые никто не отвечает.
Смешно читать, что пишут про великих людей всякие анонимы с ящиками на mail.ru, а иногда и без них.
Зависть - причина? Не знаю... но "за державу обидно".