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Goro Shimura

1930 - 2019

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Goro Shimura is the 449th most popular mathematician (down from 440th in 2019), the 826th most popular biography from Japan (up from 832nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Goro Shimura ranks 449 out of 1,004. Before him are Frigyes Riesz, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, Johann II Bernoulli, Yang Hui, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, and Hermann Bondi. After him are Yves Meyer, Gerd Faltings, Erhard Schmidt, Yutaka Taniyama, Sam Loyd, and William Jones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Goro Shimura ranks 208. Before him are Jan P. Syse, Clifford Brown, Viktor Tikhonov, Clive Revill, Yuan Longping, and Israel Kirzner. After him are Yuri Artyukhin, Kalevi Sorsa, Mildred Dresselhaus, Dani Karavan, María Elena Walsh, and Svatopluk Pluskal. Among people deceased in 2019, Goro Shimura ranks 164. Before him are Harrison Dillard, Sogyal Rinpoche, John C. Bogle, Jörg Demus, Peter Schreier, and Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino. After him are Luigi Colani, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Keith Flint, José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Johnny Kitagawa, and Claude Goretta.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Goro Shimura ranks 826 out of 6,245. Before him are Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Prince Koreyasu (1264), Kinuyo Tanaka (1909), Hasui Kawase (1883), and Ashikaga Yoshihide (1538). After him are Akira Nishino (1955), Ryōkan (1758), Takako Shimazu (1939), Mayumi Tanaka (1955), Prince Hisaaki (1276), and Gotō Shinpei (1857).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Goro Shimura ranks 5. Before him are Seki Takakazu (1642), Kunihiko Kodaira (1915), Kiyosi Itô (1915), and Heisuke Hironaka (1931). After him are Yutaka Taniyama (1927), Mikio Sato (1928), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917), Yasumasa Kanada (1948), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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