Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko () (born 13 March 1945) is a Ukrainian-Russian mathematician, professor of Moscow State University, well-known as a topologist, and a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was born in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Historical work

Fomenko is a founding father of the New Chronology theory, a new interpretation of the world history. This theory asserts that following the massive falsifications and book-burnings of Middle Ages, the written world history is known to us only from the 11th century, and the medieval and ancient events known to us today, notably the life of Jesus and the Peloponnesian War, happened not earlier than between 1,000 and 400 years ago. The theory thus denies the "Dark Ages" of European history and comparable gaps in other cultures.

Fomenko's research into chronology is based on the computer-aided mathematical analysis of the astronomical data extracted from archeological and cultural artifacts, and other non-written sources. He declares, for example, that eclipses described by Thucydides happened not in the 5th Century BC but in the 11th or 12th Century AD. The theory itself has been around for some time, perhaps originating with the French scholar Jean Hardouin, but has failed to gain much scholarly backing or approval.

Other interests

Fomenko is the author of extensive writings in his original fields of mathematics, and is also famous for his original drawings, inspired by topological objects and structures.

Books by Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko

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• History: Fiction or Science? vol.1 ISBN 2913621058, vol.2 ISBN 2913621066
• Mathematical Impressions, by A. T. Fomenko and Richard Lipkin, American Mathematical Society, 1990, 184 pp. ISBN 0821801627

External links

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• Biography and list of his 'New Impressions' art (German language)
• Outline of his book in the English language "History: Fiction or Science?"
• Reviews of "History: Fiction or Science?" v.1 and v.2
• Fomenko's Drawings
• New Chronology official site (Russian language)

1945 births | Chronologists | Living people | Russian mathematicians | Ukrainian mathematicians | Russian scientists | Ukrainian scientists | 20th century mathematicians | 21st century mathematicians | Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Conspiracy theorists | Topologists

Anatoli Timofejewitsch Fomenko | Фоменко, Анатолий Тимофеевич