Iskander Asanovich Taimanov (20 December 1961, ???????? ???????? ????????) is a Russian mathematician whose research concerns geometry, calculus of variations, and soliton theory.
He is the chair of the department of geometry and topology of Novosibirsk State University.
He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He was a Ph.D.
student of Sergey Petrovich Novikov.
Some topics of his work are Morse–Novikov theory and Willmore surfaces.He is the author of the textbook Lectures on Differential Geometry.