Abstract
Late Style – Yuri I. Manin looking back on a life in mathematics
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 84-85 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Notices of the American Mathematical Society |
| Volume | 60 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Bibliographical note
The expression “Late Style” derives from Adorno’s1937 essay on the Spätstil of Beethoven. The phrase
was used as the title of a course at Columbia University
and later of a posthumous book by Edward
Said, who explained that “Late Style” refers to “the
way in which the work of some great artists and
writers acquires a new idiom towards the end of
their lives.” Here one is viewing, however, “artistic
lateness not [necessarily] as harmony and resolution,
but as intransigence, difficulty, and unresolved
contradiction.” With the subtitle “Looking
Back on a Life in Mathematics”, it is also the chosen
title for a documentary about Yuri Manin.