Yuri I. Manin

Manin in 2006

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.
  • in an edition by Felix E. Browder (1976). Mathematical developments arising from Hilbert problems, Volume 28, Part 1. American Mathematical Society Bookstore. p. 36. ISBN 0821814281.