Shokichi Iyanaga ( Japanese 彌 永 昌吉 Iyanaga Shё: Kiti , April 2, 1906 - June 1, 2006 ) is a Japanese mathematician .
| Seokichi Iyanaga | |
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| 彌 永 昌吉 | |
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| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo |
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| A place of death | Tokyo |
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| Scientific field | maths |
| Place of work | University of Tokyo , Gakushuin University |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| supervisor | Teiji takagi |
| Famous students | Kunihiko Kodaira Mikio Sato Kenkiti Iwasawa |
| Awards and prizes | Legion of Honor |
Early years
In 1926-1929 he studied at Tokyo University , attended several courses of Teiji Takagi . During these years, two articles he wrote were published in the Japanese Journal of Mathematics and Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Tokyo [3] In 1931, under the leadership of Teiji Takagi defended his thesis for the Ph.D. [4] . In the same year, he received a scholarship from the French government and spent several years in Germany and France , talking with the best mathematicians of the time - Emil Artin , Claude Chevalley , Henri Cartan and others.
Career
In 1934, Iyanaga returned to Japan and was appointed assistant professor at the University of Tokyo. From 1935 to 1939 he did not publish any articles: as he writes, this was due to teaching activities that were not familiar to him [5] . In 1939, he managed to solve the problem posed by Artin, which was a generalization of the . After that, he published many articles on various fields of mathematics, especially on algebraic topology , functional analysis and geometry , the courses on which he taught at the university. In 1942 he received the post of professor.
From 1952 to 1955 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union . In 1955, he was the main organizer of the International Symposium on Algebraic Number Theory, during which the Taniyama – Simura hypothesis appeared [6] . From 1957 to 1978, Iyanaga was president of the International Commission on Mathematical Education . In 1965, he was appointed dean of the faculty of sciences at the University of Tokyo. In 1967, he resigned and spent a year at the University of Nancy . From 1967 to 1977 he worked as a professor at Gakusyuin University .
In 1978, Iyanaga was elected a member of the Japanese Academy, in 1980 - he was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor . In 1994, a collection of his works in mathematics was published [5] .
Iyanaga was the editor-in-chief of many Japanese-language math textbooks, as well as the editor of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics , later translated into English. His last article was Travaux de Claude Chevalley sur la theorie du corps de classes: Introduction , published by the Japanese Mathematical Society in 2006 [6] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Archive for the history of mathematics MacTutor
- ↑ http://www.mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1397642&tstart=0
- ↑ John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson . Iyanaga, Shokichi (Eng.) - biography in the MacTutor archive.
- ↑ Iyanaga, Seokichi (Eng.) In the project “ Mathematical Genealogy ”
- ↑ 1 2 S. Iyanaga, Collected papers - Tokyo, Iwanami, 1994.
- ↑ 1 2 Shigeru Iitaka. SHOKICHI IYANAGA (English) . International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. Date of treatment August 25, 2013. Archived on September 14, 2013.