Life After Retirement: Dmitry Fuchs

I retired in 2015 and bear a title of Professor Emeritus for more than 7 years. It is a common belief that after many years of hard work, emeriti enjoy their well deserved rest, not burdened by any formal duties. It may be true in general, but not in my case. I have an impression that never in my life I worked as hard as now. During my retirement I have never stopped teaching. In particular, I taught in Davis graduate courses of “Introduction to the Differential Topology” and ”Differential Geometry II,” and also a reading course “Lie Groups and Algebras.” Also I taught (remotely) a semester course “Representations of Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras” under the auspices of Pennsylvania State University.

My notes for this course were published as an (electronic) book by AMR (Association for Mathematical Research). My teaching now is of a different nature: I conduct weekly meetings of Davis Mathematical Circle Beyond Grade 5. Also, I have never abandoned mathematical research. As always before, I do not feel myself pinned to any particular domain in Mathematics. Currently I have two articles awaiting their publication (“Jordan Types of Triangular Matrices over a Finite Field,” joint with Alexander Kirillov, accepted by the Arnold Mathematical Journal, and “A Family of Integrable Transformations of Centroaffine Polygons,” joint with Serge Tabachnikov and Maxim Arnold, accepted by Annales d’Institut Fourier), and one paper in preparation, “Forgotten Chapters of Differential Geometry of Curves in Space,” joint with Serge Tabachnikov and three more authors.

I can only wish to all my colleagues who approach the retirement age, to retire as soon as possible: this will give you the real opportunity to work in your favorite domains with no distractions.