# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/viktor-vasilyev
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:50:55.842Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/viktor-vasilyev"
name: "Viktor Vasilyev"
slug: "viktor-vasilyev"
description: "Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev or Vasilyev, is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is best known for his discovery of the Vassiliev invariants in knot theory, which subsume many previously discovered polynomial knot invariants such as the Jones polynomial. He also works on singularity theory, topology, computational complexity theory, integral geometry, symplectic geometry, partial differential equations, complex analysis, combinatorics, and Picard–Lefschetz theory."
tagline: "Russian mathematician"
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birthDate: "1956-04-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump