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The twentieth century return to Middle Age scholastics taught us a lot about formalisms. Probably it is time to look outside again. Meaning is what really matters.

Yuri Manin

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

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What binds us to space-time is our rest mass, which prevents us from flying at the speed of light, when time stops and space loses meaning. In a world of light there are neither points nor moments of time; beings woven from light would live "nowhere" and "nowhen"; only poetry and mathematics are capable of speaking meaningfully about such things.

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To put it simply, we first explain what we are talking about, and then explain why what we are saying is true (pace Bertrand Russell).

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A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".

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The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument.

Yuri Manin

Yuri Manin

Yuri Manin

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Born: February 16, 1937

Died: January 7, 2023 (aged 85)

Bio: Yuri Ivanovitch Manin is a SovietGerman mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical logic to theoretical physics.

Known for:

A course in mathematical logic (1977)
Gauge Field Theory and Complex Geometry (1988)
Linear Algebra and Geometry (1989)

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