First of all, the price for this English edition of Fomeko's book on chronology is too high, but that's a common practice to price high monographs in math (simply, it's assumed that nobody except few sepecialists in the area would ever read them), so I read this book in Russian. But, this is not a math book in usual sense. Russian is not my first language, so I had plenty of trouble reading this book but it was worthy of my effort. It is an excelent example how mathematics and statistics enter new areas to examine their accuracy and correctness. Traditionally, math-free history enjoyed lots of flexibility in presenting its descriptions of historical events. History, as we know, may sometimes be incorrect, but how incorrect can it be? According to Fomenko the magnitude of this incorrectness is so massive that it is simply shocking. He supports his claims by mathematical and statistical methods - i.e. scientific methods which became a new exciting area of the applied mathematics. Some of the most shocking statements of Fomenko are related to the global chronology of historical events. Simply, he claims that our history was extended artificially (by mistake or intentionally) by about 1000 year. That means, it's not the year 2000 but the year 1000. In order to learn how these claims were made, the reader should read the books by Fomenko devoted the global chronology of historical events.
