- Igor Pak
Igor Pak ( _ru. Игорь Пак) (born
1971 ,Moscow ,Russia ) is an associate professor ofmathematics at theUniversity of Minnesota , working incombinatorics and discreteprobability . He formerly taught at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology , and is best known for hisbijective proof of the hook-length formula for the number ofYoung tableau x, and his work onrandom walk s. Pak has co-authored a paper onMarkov chain s withLászló Lovász , which gives him anErdős number of 2. He was a keynote speaker alongside George Andrews andDoron Zeilberger at the 2006Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Conference on Enumerative Combinatorics.Background
Igor Pak went to Moscow High School № 57. After graduating, he worked for a year at
Bank Menatep .Pak did his undergraduate studies at
Moscow State University . He was a Ph.D. student ofPersi Diaconis atHarvard University . Afterwards, he worked withLászló Lovász as a postdoc atYale University . He was a fellow at theMathematical Sciences Research Institute , and a long term visitor at the Hebrew University ofJerusalem .External links
* [http://math.mit.edu/~pak/ Personal site] .
* [http://math.mit.edu/~pak/research.html List of published papers, with abstracts] .
* [http://math.mit.edu MIT Mathematics Department website] .
* [http://ams.org/mathscinet/search/publications.html?extend=1&pg1=IID&r=1&s1=293184 MathSciNet: "Items authored by Pak, Igor."]
* [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/indices/a-tree/p/Pak:Igor.html DBLP: Igor Pak] .
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