Gorō Shimura
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Japanese mathematician (1930-2019)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1930-02-23 ) 23 February 1930, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Died
- 3 May 2019 (2019-05-03) (aged 89), Princeton , New Jersey
- Alma mater
- University of Tokyo
- Known for
- Complex multiplication of abelian varieties , Eichler-Shimura relation , Modularity theorem , Shimura correspondence , Shimura variety , Shimura subgroup , Shimura's reciprocity law
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1970) , Cole Prize (1977) , Asahi Prize (1991) , Steele Prize (1996)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Princeton University
- Doctoral students
- Don Blasius , Bill Casselman , Melvin Hochster , Robert Rumely , Alice Silverberg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hamamatsu
- Place of death
- Princeton
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Tokyo
- Employer
- University of Tokyo
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Japanese
- Field of work
- mathematics
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- date of birth
- 1930-02-23
- Erdős number
- 2
- name in kana
- しむら ごろう
- name in native language
- 志村五郎
- date of death
- 2019-05-03
- writing language
- Japanese
- ethnic group
- Japanese people
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- birth name
- しむら ごろう
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Encyclopedic overview
Gorō Shimura (志村 五郎, Shimura Gorō; 23 February 1930 – 3 May 2019) was a Japanese mathematician and Michael Henry Strater Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University who worked in number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry. He was known for developing the theory of complex multiplication of abelian varieties and Shimura varieties, as well as posing the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture which ultimately led to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Biography
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