Anatoly Fomenko

Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko (; born 13 March 1945 in Stalino, USSR, now the city of Donetsk) is a Soviet and Russian professor of Mathematics at Moscow State University. He is well-known as a topologist and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a painter and illustrator of original artworks inspired by topological objects and structures.

Fomenko is also widely known as a conspiracy theorist. He originated a fictitious and pseudoscientific history called New Chronology, based on works of Russian-Soviet writer Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov. Provided by Wikipedia