Yuri I. Manin

Yuri Ivanovitch Manin (16 February 1937 – 7 January 2023) was a Russian-German mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical logic to theoretical physics.

Quotes

 * The twentieth century return to Middle Age scholastics taught us a lot about formalisms. Probably it is time to look outside again. Meaning is what really matters.
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