Takurō Mochizuki

{{Short description|Japanese mathematician (born 1972)}}

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Takurō Mochizuki (望月 拓郎, born 28 August 1972) is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University.

Overview

As a student at the University of Kyoto in 1994, Mochizuki left his undergraduate studies early to become a graduate student in mathematics at the same university. He completed his Ph.D. in 1999, and joined the faculty of Osaka City University, returning to Kyoto in 2004.

Awards

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He was awarded the Japan Academy Prize in 2011 for his research on D-modules in algebraic analysis.{{citation|url=http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/static/en/news_data/h/h1/news7/2011/110412_1.htm|title=Professor Emeritus Masahiro Shogaito and Associate Professor Takuro Mochizuki of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences Receive the Japan Academy Prize|date=April 12, 2011|publisher=Kyoto University|accessdate=2015-08-01}}.{{citation|url=http://www.japan-acad.go.jp/pdf/youshi/101en/mochizuki.pdf|title=Japan Academy Prize to: Takuro Mochizuki|publisher=Japan Academy|accessdate=2015-08-01}}. In 2014 he was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians.{{citation|url=http://www.icm2014.org/en/program/scientific/plenary|work=Seoul ICM 2014|title=Schedule of Plenary Lectures|accessdate=2015-08-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716122702/http://www.icm2014.org/en/program/scientific/plenary|archivedate=2015-07-16}}.

Mochizuki was awarded the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his work on "the theory of bundles with flat connections over algebraic varieties".{{cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/News/65|title=Winners of the 2022 Breakthrough Prizes in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics announced|access-date=9 September 2020}} The same year, he became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.{{cite web |url=https://www.asianscientist.com/as100/ |title=The Asian Scientist 100 |author= |date= |website= |publisher= Asian Scientist |access-date= 13 March 2025 |quote= |language= }}

References

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Further reading

  • {{citation

| last = Sabbah | first = Claude

| date = January 2012

| journal = Séminaire Bourbaki

| language = French

| mr = 3087348

| pages = 1–36

| title = Théorie de Hodge et correspondance de Hitchin-Kobayashi sauvages (d'après T. Mochizuki)

| url = http://www.bourbaki.ens.fr/TEXTES/1050.pdf

| volume = 1050}}. Also in Astérisque No. 352 (2013), Exp. No. 1050, viii, 205–241, {{ISBN|978-2-85629-371-3}}.