Shigeru Iitaka
{{short description|Japanese mathematician}}
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|birth_date ={{Birth date|1942|05|29}}
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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.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021025907/http://www-cc.gakushuin.ac.jp/~851051/shigerue.pdf CV of Shigeru Iitaka]
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Category:20th-century Japanese mathematicians
Category:21st-century Japanese mathematicians
Category:Academic staff of Gakushuin University
Category:Scientists from Chiba Prefecture
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