11 Facts About Yuri Manin

Yuri Ivanovich Manin was a Russian mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical logic to theoretical physics.

Yuri Manin received a doctorate in 1960 at the Steklov Mathematics Institute as a student of Igor Shafarevich.

Yuri Manin became a professor at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik in Bonn, where he was director from 1992 to 2005 and then director emeritus.

Yuri Manin was a Trustee Chair Professor at Northwestern University from 2002 to 2011.

Yuri Manin had over the years more than 40 doctoral students, including Vladimir Berkovich, Mariusz Wodzicki, Alexander Beilinson, Ivan Cherednik, Alexei Skorobogatov, Vladimir Drinfeld, Mikhail Kapranov, Vyacheslav Shokurov, Ralph Kaufmann, Victor Kolyvagin, Alexander A Voronov, and Ha Huy Khoai.

Yuri Manin pioneered the field of arithmetic topology.

Yuri Manin formulated the Manin conjecture, which predicts the asymptotic behaviour of the number of rational points of bounded height on algebraic varieties.

Yuri Manin was one of the first to propose the idea of a quantum computer in 1980 with his book Computable and Uncomputable.

Yuri Manin wrote a book on cubic surfaces and cubic forms, showing how to apply both classical and contemporary methods of algebraic geometry, as well as nonassociative algebra.

Yuri Manin was awarded the Brouwer Medal in 1987, the first Nemmers Prize in Mathematics in 1994, the Schock Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1999, the Cantor Medal of the German Mathematical Society in 2002, the King Faisal International Prize in 2002, and the Bolyai Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2010.

Yuri Manin was a member of eight other academies of science and was an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society.