Andriy Slyusarchuk Scientist
Andriy Tykhonovych Slyusarchuk (Ukrainian: Андрі́й Ти́хонович Слюсарчу́к) (born May 10, 1971 in Zhytomyr) is a Ukrainian mnemonist who has claimed to be, among other things, a pilot of general aviation, psychotherapist, Doctor of Sciences in medicine, psychiatrist, psychologist, and neurosurgeon. He performed surgeries on brain all over Ukraine in state and municipal hospitals alone and was employed by the V. Chornovol Lviv State Institute of Modern Technologies and Management, the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, the P.L. Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, the A.P. Romodanov Institute of Neurosurgery, the Lviv Polytechnic National University as a professor as well as by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as an adviser to Oleksandr Turchynov.He has also claimed to have set a number of unverified world records in memorizing data and figures such as Pi, while being able to perform highly complex computer-speed calculations mentally. Due to that, he is commonly known as "Doctor Pi".By his claims, he managed to fool two Presidents of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych. In the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, his activities were called "the most large-scale fraud during the 20 years of independence of Ukraine." On 14 February 2014, the Sykhiv Raion Court sentenced Slyusarchuk to eight years in prison.
