Svetlana Katok

Svetlana Katok ( born May 1, 1947 in Moscow) is a Russian - American mathematician who deals with hyperbolic geometry, symmetric spaces, fox between groups, number theory and dynamical systems.

Life and work

Svetlana Katok grew up as the daughter of the mathematics historian Boris Rosenfeld on in Moscow. She decided at age 13 to become a mathematician, and made in 1969 from Moscow State University graduate. Since she was denied a PhD study of political anti -Semitism, she worked as a mathematics teacher. In 1978 she emigrated to the USA and was awarded his doctorate in 1983 at Don Zagier at the University of Maryland. After that, she was at several California universities, including before she went at Caltech and Berkeley in 1990, the Pennsylvania State University where she is a professor since 1994. She is married to the mathematician Anatole Katok ( also a professor at Penn State ), with whom she runs the MASS program for undergraduate students at Penn State.

Svetlana Katok dealt originally with dynamic systems and moved to the U.S. to work on the application of these theories in number theory and modular forms.

She has three children ( her daughter Danya Katok is soprano, Elena Katok Professor of Business Administration ).

In 2001 she received the Eberly College Distinguished Service Award and in 2004 she was Noether Lecturer. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

• Fuchsian Groups. University of Chicago Press 1992.
• Issuer with Tabachnikov, Alexei Sossinsky MASS Selecta teaching and learning advanced undergraduate mathematics. AMS, Providence 2003 ( fact: - adic analysis Compared to real and Continued fractions, hyperbolic geometry and quadratic forms).
• With Ilie Ugarcovici: Symbolic dynamics for the modular surface and beyond. Bulletin AMS, Bd.44, 2007, No.2, p.87 - 132.
• Closed geodesics, periods and arithmetic of modular forms. Inventiones Mathematicae, Vol 80, 1985, S.469.