Vladimir Solomonovich Retakh (Russian: Ретах Владимир Соломонович; 20 May 1948) is a Russian-American mathematician who made important contributions to Noncommutative algebra and combinatorics among other areas.
Retakh graduated in 1970 from the Moscow State Pedagogical University.
[1] He obtained his PhD in 1973 under the mentorship of Dmitrii Abramovich Raikov.
While at the Council for Cybernetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1990, Retakh had started working with Gelfand on their new program on Noncommutative determinants.
Prior to immigrating to the US in 1993 he also held a position at the Scientific Research Institute of System Development Retakh's other contributions include: He was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to noncommutative algebra and noncommutative algebraic geometry".