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Gorō Shimura

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Also known as Shimura Gorō, Goro Shimura, Shimura Goro, Gorou Shimura

Japanese mathematician (1930-2019)

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Top works

  • Collected Papers
  • Arithmetic and Analytic Theories of Quadratic Forms and Clifford Groups
  • Collected Papers Vol. 3
  • Modular Forms
  • Arithmeticity in the Theory of Automorphic Forms

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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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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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