Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko

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Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko (Анато́лий Тимофе́евич Фоме́нко) (born 13 March 1945) is a prominent Ukrainian-Russian mathematician, professor of Moscow State University, well-known as a topologist, and a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was born in Donetsk, Ukraine. He is also the founding-father of the New Chronology theory, a new interpretation of the world history. This theory asserts that following the massive falsifications and book-burnings of Middle Ages, the written world history is known to us only from the 11th century, and the medieval and ancient events known to us today happened not earlier than between 1000 and 400 years ago. Fomenko's research of chronology is based on the computer-aided mathematical analysis of the astronomical data extracted from archeological and cultural artifacts, and other non-written sources. The theory itself has been around for a fair amount of time, but has failed to gain widespread scholarly backing or approval. Since Fomenko has no formal academic training in history and propounds theories far outside mainstream thought, pretty much all credible historians label his "modern" work as pseudoscience. He is also famous for his original drawings, inspired by topological objects and structures.