His research included operator algebras, combinatorics, probability and representation theory.
His father Vasily Kerov was a teacher for analytical chemistry at a university in Leningrad and his mother Marianna Nikolayeva was an expert in seed physiology.
(Doctor of Science) from the Steklov Institute for his work Asymptotic Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group, with Applications to Analysis.
[1] A list of Kerov's scientific articles was published in the Journal of Mathematical Sciences.
[4][5] The same result was also independently proved by Logan and Shepp and thus is also called Logan–Shepp curve.