Kiyoshi Igusa (born November 28, 1949) is a Japanese-American mathematician and a professor at

Brandeis University Brandeis University is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by the Jews, Jewish community, Brandeis was established on t ...

. He works in

representation theory Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies modules over these abstract algebraic structures. In essen ...

and

topology In mathematics, topology (from the Greek words , and ) is concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing ho ...

Education and career

He studied at the

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and

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...

, where he obtained his

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in 1979, under the direction of

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. From 1981 to 1983, he was a

Sloan Fellow The Sloan Fellows program is the world's first mid-career and senior career master's degree in general management and leadership. It was initially supported by a grant from Alfred P. Sloan, the late CEO of General Motors, to his alma mater, MI ...

, and since 2012 he is 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 ...

Personal life

Igusa's father,

Jun-Ichi Igusa was a Japanese mathematician who for over three decades was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his contributions to algebraic geometry and number theory. The Igusa zeta-function, the Igusa quartic, Igusa subgroups, ...

, was also a mathematician. Igusa is married to

Gordana Todorov Gordana Todorov (born July 24, 1949) is a mathematician working in noncommutative algebra, representation theory, Artin algebras, and cluster algebras. She is a professor of mathematics at Northeastern University. Biography Todorov earned her ...

, with whom he is a frequent collaborator.

Selected publications

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References

External links

* (Personal Website) {{DEFAULTSORT:Igusa, Kiyoshi Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 1949 births Living people Brandeis University faculty American people of Japanese descent University of Chicago alumni Princeton University alumni 21st-century American mathematicians Sloan Research Fellows 20th-century American mathematicians Topologists