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Kiyoshi Itō
Japanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus (1915–2008)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 7 September 1915
- Died
- 10 November 2008
- Place of birth
- Hokusei-cho-ageki, Inabe
- Place of death
- Kyoto
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Kiyoshi
- Family name
- Itō
- Sibling
- Seizō Itō
- Field of work
- probability theory, theory of differential equations, stochastic calculus, mathematics, mathematical analysis, stochastic process, stochastic analysis
- Occupation
- bureaucrat, mathematician, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Japan, Empire of Japan
- Awards
- Imperial Prize of Japan Academy, Asahi Prize, doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, Person of Cultural Merit, Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, Order of Culture
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- academic thesis
- On Stochastic Processes
- birth name
- 伊藤 清
- doctoral advisor
- Shokichi Iyanaga
- doctoral student
- Shinzō Watanabe, Murali Rao, Takeyuki Hida, Roy King, Makiko Nisio, Jørgen Hoffman-Jørgensen, Tsunekichi Shirao
- educated at
- University of Tokyo, University of Tokyo
- employer
- Nagoya University, Kyoto University, Institute for Advanced Study, Aarhus University, Cornell University, Gakushuin University, Statistics Japan, Kyoto University
- Erdős number
- 3
- influenced by
- Norbert Wiener, Paul Pierre Lévy, Andrey Kolmogorov
- interested in
- stochastic process
- name in native language
- 伊藤 清
- notable work
- Itō's lemma, Itō calculus, Itô–Nisio theorem, Itō isometry, Itō diffusion
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