Yuri Manin#
| Membership Number: | 1314 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1993 |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2011 Professor Emeritus
- 2002 Board of Trustees Professor, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
- 2005 Professor Emeritus MPIM
- Managing Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Math. (MPIM), Bonn
- 1993-2005 Scientific Member and Collegium Member, Director
- 1992-1993 Professor, Math. Dept. MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
- 1965-1992 Professor, Algebra Chair, Moscow University
- 1960 Researcher at the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow., since May 1993, Principal Researcher in absentia
- 1960 Ph. D. Mathematics: Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow
Fields of Scholarship
- Algebraic geometry: birational classification of algebraic varieties, Quantum co-homology, non commutative geometry
- Number theory: Diophantine Geometry, program of counting points of bounded height, Brauer-Manin obstruction
- Modular forms: theory of modular symbols, p-adic interpolation
- Differential equations: theory of instantons and solitons
- Mathematical physics: quantum groups, string theory
- Computer science: early project of quantum computing, asymptotic bounds for codes, renormalization program in computation
Honours and Awards
- 1963 Moscow Mathematical Society Award
- 1967 Lenin Prize for work in Algebraic Geometry
- 1987 Brouwer Medal for work in Number Theory, Netherlands Royal Society and Mathematical Society
- 1994 Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
- 1999 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Sweden
- 2002 King Faisal International Prize for Mathematics, Saudi Arabia
- 2002 Georg Cantor Medal of the German Mathematical Society
- 2007 Order Pour le Mérite, Germany
- 2008 Great Cross of Merit with Star, Germany
- Elected Membership in Scientific Academies
- 1990 Corresponding Member, Academy of Sciences, Russia
- 1990 Foreign Member, Royal Academy of Sciences, the Netherlands
- 1993 Member, Academia Europaea
- 1996 Member, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican
- 2000 Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Academia Leopoldina)
- 2004 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2005 Foreign Member, Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France
