Kiyoshi Igusa (born November 28, 1949) is a Japanese-American mathematician and a professor at
Brandeis University
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. He works in
representation theory
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and
topology
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.
Education and career
He studied at the
University of Chicago
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and
Princeton University
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, where he obtained his
Ph.D.
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in 1979, under the direction of
Allen Hatcher Allen, Allen's or Allens may refer to:
Buildings
* Allen Arena, an indoor arena at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee
* Allen Center, a skyscraper complex in downtown Houston, Texas
* Allen Fieldhouse, an indoor sports arena on the Unive ...
.
From 1981 to 1983, he was a
Sloan Fellow
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, and since 2012 he is a Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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.
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)
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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