Iskander Asanovich Taimanov (born 20 December 1961, Искандер Асанович Тайманов) is a Russian mathematician whose research concerns geometry, calculus of variations, and soliton theory. He is the chair of the department of geometry and topology of Novosibirsk State University.

Iskander Taimanov

He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[1]

He was a Ph.D. student of Sergey Petrovich Novikov.[2]

Some topics of his work are Morse–Novikov theory and Willmore surfaces.[3][4][5]

He is the author of the textbook Lectures on Differential Geometry.[6]

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  1. ^ Russian Academy of Sciences
  2. ^ Iskander Taimanov at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Bohle, Christoph (2010-09-01). "Constrained Willmore tori in the 4-sphere". Journal of Differential Geometry. 86 (1): 71–132. arXiv:0803.0633. ISSN 0022-040X.
  4. ^ Bohle, Christoph; Peters, G. Paul (2011-01-01). "Soliton spheres". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 363 (10): 5419–5463. arXiv:0905.2162. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-2011-05323-7. ISSN 0002-9947.
  5. ^ Thomas, Charles Benedict (1996-09-28). Contact and Symplectic Geometry. Cambridge University Press. p. 131. ISBN 9780521570862.
  6. ^ Locascio, Andrew (February 17, 2009). "Review of Lectures on Differential Geometry". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
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