Haruzo Hida (肥田晴三 ''Hida Haruzo'', born 6 August 1952,

Sakai, Osaka is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It has been one of the largest and most important seaports of Japan since the medieval era. Sakai is known for its keyhole-shaped burial mounds, or kofun, which date from the fifth century and inclu ...

) is a Japanese mathematician, known for his research in number theory, algebraic geometry, and modular forms. Hida received from

Kyoto University , mottoeng = Freedom of academic culture , established = , type = National university, Public (National) , endowment = ¥ 316 billion (2.4 1000000000 (number), billion USD) , faculty = 3,480 (Teaching Staff) , administrative_staff ...

a B.A. in 1975, an M.A. in 1977, and a Ph.D. in 1980 with thesis ''On Abelian Varieties with Complex Multiplication as Factors of the Jacobians of Shimura Curves'', although he left Kyoto University in 1977. He was from 1977 to 1984 an assistant professor and from 1984 to 1987 an associate professor at

Hokkaidō University , or , is a Japanese national university in Sapporo, Hokkaido. It was the fifth Imperial University in Japan, which were established to be the nation's finest institutions of higher education or research. Hokkaido University is considered ...

. Since 1987 he has been a professor at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

. From 1979 to 1981 he was a visiting scholar at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

. Hida was an invited speaker at the

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(Berkeley) in 1986. In 1991 he was awarded the

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

. Hida received in 1992 for his research on p-adic L-functions of algebraic groups and p-adic Hecke rings the Spring Prize of the

Mathematical Society of Japan The Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ, ja, 日本数学会) is a learned society for mathematics in Japan. In 1877, the organization was established as the ''Tokyo Sugaku Kaisha'' and was the first academic society in Japan. It was re-organized ...

. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

. He received the 2019

Leroy P. Steele Prize The Leroy P. Steele Prizes are awarded every year by the American Mathematical Society, for distinguished research work and writing in the field of mathematics. Since 1993, there has been a formal division into three categories. The prizes have b ...

for Seminal Contribution to Research for his highly original paper "Galois representations into GL2(Zp) attached to ordinary cusp forms," published in 1986 in

Inventiones Mathematicae ''Inventiones Mathematicae'' is a mathematical journal published monthly by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established in 1966 and is regarded as one of the most prestigious mathematics journals in the world. The current managing editors ...

Selected works

''Elementary theory of L-functions and Eisenstein series''
Cambridge University Press, 1993

Cambridge University Press, 2000

World Scientific, 2000

Springer, 2004
''Hilbert modular forms and Iwasawa theory''
Oxford University Press, 2006

External links

Homepage for Haruzo Hida at UCLA

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hida, Haruzo 20th-century Japanese mathematicians 21st-century Japanese mathematicians Number theorists Kyoto University alumni Academic staff of Hokkaido University University of California, Los Angeles faculty 1952 births Living people Fellows of the American Mathematical Society