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Friday, May 04, 2018
 
In Memory of Anatole Katok 1944 - 2018
In Memory of Anatole Katok 1944 - 2018
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Anatole Katok, 73, of State College, Pennsylvania, died Monday, April 30, 2018. He was born August 9, 1944, the son of the late Berl and Dveira Sorkin Katok, who at the time of Anatole’s birth were in Washington, D.C., as members of the Russian delegation to the United States lend-lease program.

Katok grew up in Moscow, in the Soviet Union. He attended Moscow State University, where he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in mathematics. On June 5, 1965, he married Svetlana Rosenfeld, and in 1978, the Katoks emigrated to the United States with their two children. Between 1978 and his death, Katok held professorships at the University of Maryland, the California Institute of Technology, and Pennsylvania State University, where he was the Raymond N. Shibley Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Center for Dynamics and Geometry. He was an active teacher and researcher up to the time of his death.

Katok was a leading figure in the subdiscipline of mathematics called dynamical systems theory,
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Anatole Katok is survived by his wife, Svetlana Katok, and their children, Elena Katok and her husband, Gary Bolton, of Dallas, Texas; Boris Katok and his wife, Sherrie Hashemi, of Reno, Nevada; Danya Katok Ahlbin and her husband, Nicholas Ahlbin, of Bronx, New York; and three grandchildren, Uriel, Zoa, and Joseph.
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http://kochfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/1672/Anatole-Katok/obituary.html
http://kochfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/1672/Anatole-Katok/obituary.html

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