Origins & Early Life

Anatoly Timofeyevich 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.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

He originated a pseudoscientific theory called New Chronology, based on works of Russian-Soviet writer Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov. Fomenko is the son of Timofey Grigoryevich Fomenko, an industrial engineer, and Valentina Polikarpovna Markova, a philologist and teacher of Russian language and literature. His parents would later co-author his works on New Chronology in 1983 and 1996. Born in what is now Donetsk, he was raised and schooled in Magadan. In 1959, his family returned to Eastern Ukraine and settled in the city of Luhansk, where Fomenko attended Secondary School No.

Enduring Legacy & Impact

26. During secondary school, Fomenko participated in many competitions relating to mathematics and won several medals as a result. Also in 1959, the magazine Pionerskaya Pravda (Russian...

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