Mikio Sato, a visionary of mathematics

Abstract

This paper, to appear in the ``Notices of the AMS'' 2024, is a modified version of a text already appeared in this journal, Feb. 2007 after a first publication in French, in ``La Gazette des Math{\'e}maticiens'' 97 (2003) on the occasion of Sato's reception of the 2002/2003 Wolf prize.