Michael Atiyah

Michael Atiyah (1929 - 2019) was the winner of the Fields Medal (1966) and the Abel Prize (2004). He had the following to say about mathematical Platonism:

"The idea that there is a pure world of mathematical objects (and perhaps other ideal objects) totally divorced from our experience, which somehow exists by itself is obviously inherent nonsense" (Atiyah 2006 p. 38).

See further in 13c.