Svetlana Katok

Svetlana Katok (born May 1, 1947)[1] is a Russian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

[2] Katok grew up in Moscow, and earned a master's degree from Moscow State University in 1969; however, due to the anti-Semitic and anti-intelligentsia policies of the time, she was denied admission to the doctoral program there and instead worked for several years in the area of early and secondary mathematical education.

[2] She immigrated to the US in 1978,[2] and earned her doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1983 under the supervision of Don Zagier.

[5] Katok is the author of: Additionally, she coedited the book MASS Selecta: Teaching and learning advanced undergraduate mathematics (American Math.

[2] In 2012 she and her husband, mathematician Anatole Katok, both became fellows of the American Mathematical Society.