Shokichi Iyanaga

Details

Instance of

human

Born

2 April 1906

Died

1 June 2006

Place of birth

Tokyo, Tokyo

Place of death

Tokyo, Tokyo

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Shōkichi

Family name

Iyanaga

Sibling

Teizō Iyanaga

Field of work

topology, geometry, functional analysis, mathematics, number theory, algebraic topology

Occupation

mathematician, university teacher

Position held

chairperson, chairperson, chairperson

Citizenship

Japan, Empire of Japan

Awards

Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class, Knight of the Legion of Honour

birth name

彌永 昌吉

doctoral advisor

Teiji Takagi

doctoral student

Mikio Sato, Ichirō Satake, Yasutaka Ihara, Takashi Ono, Tsuneo Tamagawa, Nagayoshi Iwahori, Ichirō Tamura, Nobuo Yoneda, Gaisi Takeuti, Hideo Wada, Akio Hattori, Satoru Takasu

educated at

University of Tokyo, University of Hamburg, University of Paris

employer

University of Tokyo, Université de Nancy, Gakushuin University, University of Chicago

Erdős number

3

languages spoken, written or signed

Japanese, English

member of

Japan Academy

name in kana

いやなが しょうきち

name in native language

彌永 昌吉

relative

Kunihiko Kodaira

subject has role

centenarian

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