Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

Friedrich Hirzebruch, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, was included in the Oral History Project of the Simons Foundation. The aim of the project is to publish a series of extended video interviews with some of the giants of twentieth century mathematics and science. This collection is meant to provide scientists, historians and students the opportunity to see and hear these great men and women discuss their lives and their thinking both about their science and about our world.

Watch the interview here

Agnes Handwerk and Harrie Willems have made a remarkable documentary about the life and work of Yuri Manin, Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, who began his career as a student at Moscow State University in the year of Stalin's death 1953 and whose subsequent professional life reflects the history of mathematics and mathematicians trying to overcome the political constraints of that time.

The film will be shown for the first time in Bonn, prior to its publication by Springer in 2012. The directors of the film will be present and available for questions and discussion after the screening.

Date: Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 17:00 - 18:15h
Venue: Lecture Hall, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Vivatsgasse 7, 53111 Bonn