Yuri Manin

Yuri Ivanovich Manin (1937 to 2023) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician known for his work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, who also wrote on mathematical logic, computing and theoretical physics. Born in Simferopol, he took his bachelor's degree at Moscow State University in 1958 and his doctorate in 1960 at the Steklov Mathematical Institute, advised by Igor Shafarevich. He became professor of algebra at Moscow State University in 1965 and from 1993 was a director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, becoming professor emeritus in 2005. His papers range from the Mordell conjecture for function fields and, with Vasily Iskovskikh, a counterexample to the Lüroth problem, to p-adic modular forms, rational points on Fano varieties, quantum groups and string theory. His books include Methods of Homological Algebra with Sergei Gelfand and A Course in Mathematical Logic.