Yuri Manin
FEB 16, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031154
Today is the birthday of Yuri Manin who was born in 1937 in Simferopol, USSR. Manin has been influential in a wide range of mathematical fields ranging from algebraic geometry to gauge theory. In 1980, in a paper titled “Computable and Uncomputable” he proposed one of the first conceptions of quantum computing for solving otherwise impossible to solve mathematical problems. Manin is currently a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, and at Northwestern University in Illinois, and has been the doctoral supervisor of a number of influential mathematicians. (Image credit: Gert-Martin Greuel)
Date in History: 16 February 1937
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