Russian mathematician Yuri Manin has died at the age of 85. This was announced by the former head of the human rights center "Memorial" Alexander Cherkasov.
Manin began studying mathematics in the 1950s. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University and did postgraduate studies there. His supervisor was the dissident Igor Shafarevich. From 1960 to 1992, Manin worked in the department of algebra of the Mathematical Institute. V. A. Steklova. At the same time, he worked at Moscow State University, from 1965 to 1992. In 1967, he took the post of professor at the department of higher algebra at the university. Manin has also taught in the US at MIT and Northwestern University. Since 2005 he has been Emeritus Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.
The hero of Philip Vecherovsky from the story of the Strugatsky brothers “A Billion Years Before the End of the World” was written off from Manin. His character is described as follows: “Vecherovsky had a completely inhuman brain. Malyanov did not know another person who, from the totality of these facts, would be able to draw such unexpected conclusions.