Kunihiko Kodaira ( Jap. 小平 邦彦 , March 6, 1915 - July 26, 1997 ) is a Japanese mathematician known for his many works on algebraic geometry and the theory of complex varieties , as well as the founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometry. In 1954, the first among Japanese mathematicians, he was awarded the Fields Prize .
| Kunihiko Kodaira | |
|---|---|
| 小平 邦彦 | |
 Kunihiko Kodaira | |
| Date of Birth | March 6, 1915 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo Japan |
| Date of death | July 26, 1997 (82 years old) |
| Place of death | Kofu , Japan |
| A country |  Japan |
| Scientific field | maths |
| Place of work | University of Tokyo Institute for Advanced Study Johns Hopkins University Stanford University |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| supervisor | Seokichi Iyanaga |
| Awards and prizes |  Fields Prize ( 1954 ) Prize of the Japanese Academy of Sciences ( 1957 ) ( 1957 ) ( 1975 )  Wolf Prize in Mathematics ( 1984/85 )   |
Biography
Kunihiko Kodaira was born in 1915 in Tokyo , the capital of Japan.
In 1938 he graduated from Tokyo University with a degree in mathematics, and in 1941 - in physics. From 1944 to 1949 he worked at the University of Tokyo as an associate professor, in 1949 he received a Ph.D. Then, accepting Hermann Weil's invitation, he moved to Princeton to work at the Institute for Advanced Study . At this time, in collaboration with , he wrote a series of 12 works that described the foundations of the theory of deformations of complex structures on manifolds. Kodayra also proved many theorems of Hodge theory . Around 1960, he began working on the classification of complex analytic surfaces. In particular, he was able to describe as deformations of quartics in P 4 (K3 surfaces were named after Kummer , Kähler, and Kodaira). Also, an important invariant of algebraic varieties was called in his honor - the .
In 1961, Kodayra moved to Harvard University . Since 1962, he worked as a professor at Johns Hopkins University , from 1965 - at Stanford University . In 1967 he returned to Japan and worked at Tokyo University. In 1954 he was awarded the Fields Prize , and in 1984/1985 - the Wolf Prize in Mathematics "for his outstanding contribution to the study of complex and algebraic varieties."
He died in 1997 in the city of Kofu .
Links
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson . Kodaira, Kunihiko (Eng.) - biography in the MacTutor archive.
- DC Spencer , Kunihiko Kodaira (1915-1997) - Notices of the AMS 45 (3), 1998: 388-389.
- F. Hirzebruch , Kunihiko Kodaira: Mathematician, Friend, and Teacher - Notices of the AMS 45 (11), 1998: 1456-1462.