Shigeru Iitaka

{{short description|Japanese mathematician}}

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|birth_date ={{Birth date|1942|05|29}}

|birth_place =Chiba, Japan

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|nationality =Japanese

|field =Mathematics

|work_institutions =Gakushuin University

|alma_mater =University of Tokyo

|doctoral_advisor =Kunihiko Kodaira

|doctoral_students =Yujiro Kawamata

|known_for =Kodaira dimension, Iitaka dimension

|prizes =Iyanaga Prize (1980)
Japan Academy Prize (1990)

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Shigeru Iitaka (飯高 茂 Iitaka Shigeru, born May 29, 1942, Chiba) is a Japanese mathematician at Gakushuin University working in algebraic geometry who introduced the Kodaira dimension, and Iitaka dimension. He was a world leader in the field of Algebraic geometry.

He received his Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Tokyo under Kunihiko Kodaira with thesis「代数多様体のD-次元について」(On D-dimensions of algebraic varieties).{{MathGenealogy|id=188665}} He was awarded the Iyanaga Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan in 1980 and the Japan Academy Prize in 1990.