| Vladimir Retakh | |
| Birth Date: | 20 May 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Chișinău, Soviet Union |
| Nationality: | Soviet Union United States |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Rutgers University |
| Alma Mater: | Moscow State V. I. Lenin Pedagogical Institute |
| Doctoral Advisors: | Dmitrii Abramovich Raikov |
| Known For: | Quasideterminant and Noncommutative symmetric function |
Vladimir Solomonovich Retakh (Russian: Ретах Владимир Соломонович; 20 May 1948) is a Russian-American mathematician who made important contributions to Noncommutative algebra and combinatorics among other areas.
Retakh graduated in 1970 from the Moscow State Pedagogical University. Beginning as an undergraduate Retakh regularly attended lectures and seminars at the Moscow State University most notably the Gelfand seminars.[1] He obtained his PhD in 1973 under the mentorship of Dmitrii Abramovich Raikov. He joined the Gelfand group in 1986.
His first position was at the central Research Institute for Engineering Buildings and later obtained his first academic position at the Council for Cybernetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1989. While at the Council for Cybernetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1990, Retakh had started working with Gelfand on their new program on Noncommutative determinants. Prior to immigrating to the US in 1993 he also held a position at the Scientific Research Institute of System Development
Retakh's other contributions include:
He was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to noncommutative algebra and noncommutative algebraic geometry".