Dmitry Fuchs

Dmitry Borisovich Fuchs (Дмитрий Борисович Фукс,[1] born 30 September 1939, Kazan,[2] Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Russian-American mathematician, specializing in the representation theory of infinite-dimensional Lie groups and in topology.

[3] Fuchs received in 1964 his Russian candidate degree (Ph.D.) under Albert S. Schwarz at Moscow State University,[4] where he taught thereafter.

Fuchs participated in the seminar and, as a student, published papers with Schwarz, as did Askold Ivanovich Vinogradov a few years earlier.

[6] His students include Boris Feigin (with whom he has collaborated extensively), Fedor Malikov, Sergei Tabachnikov, and Vladimir Rokhlin, as well as Edward Frenkel for whom Fuchs was a second advisor.

[8][9] In 1978 Fuchs was an Invited Speaker with talk New results on the characteristic classes of foliations at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki.