is a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

working in

mathematical physics Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematics, mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The ''Journal of Mathematical Physics'' defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and t ...

and is a professor of mathematics at

Rikkyo University , also known as Saint Paul's University, is a private university, in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan. Rikkyo is known as one of the six leading universities in the field of sports in Tokyo (東京六大学 "Big Six" — Rikkyo University, University of ...

. He is a grandson of the

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

Career

After graduating from the

University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

in 1974, he studied under

Mikio Sato is a Japanese mathematician known for founding the fields of algebraic analysis, hyperfunctions, and holonomic quantum fields. He is a professor at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto. Education Sato studied at the Unive ...

at the

Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences The is a research institute attached to Kyoto University, hosting researchers in the mathematical sciences from all over Japan. RIMS was founded in April 1963. List of directors * Masuo Fukuhara (1963.5.1 – 1969.3.31) * Kōsaku Yosida (1969 ...

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 ...

. He has made important contributions to

, including (independently of

Vladimir Drinfeld Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld ( uk, Володи́мир Ге́ршонович Дрінфельд; russian: Влади́мир Ге́ршонович Дри́нфельд; born February 14, 1954), surname also romanized as Drinfel'd, is a renowne ...

) the initial development of the study of

quantum group In mathematics and theoretical physics, the term quantum group denotes one of a few different kinds of noncommutative algebras with additional structure. These include Drinfeld–Jimbo type quantum groups (which are quasitriangular Hopf algebras) ...

s, the development of the theory of

\tau

-functions for the KP ( Kadomtsev–Petviashvili) integrable hierarchy, and other related integrable hierarchies , E. Date, M. Jimbo, M. Kashiwara and T. Miwa, "Operator approach to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation III". ''J. Phys. Soc. Jap.'' 50 (11): 3806–3812 (1981). doi:10.1143/JPSJ.50.3806. M. Jimbo and T. Miwa, "Solitons and infinite-dimensional Lie algebras", ''Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci.'', 19(3):943–1001 (1983). and development of the theory of

isomonodromic deformation In mathematics, the equations governing the isomonodromic deformation of meromorphic linear systems of ordinary differential equations are, in a fairly precise sense, the most fundamental exact nonlinear differential equations. As a result, the ...

systems for rational covariant derivative operators. M. Jimbo, T. Miwa, and K. Ueno, "Monodromy Preserving Deformation of Linear Ordinary Differential Equations with Rational Coefficients I", ''Physica D,'' 2, 306–352 (1981)

Awards

In 1993 he won the Japan Academy Prize for this work.List of Japan Academy Prize recipients
In 2010 he received the

Wigner Medal The International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics is an academic conference devoted to applications of group theory to physics. It was founded in 1972 by Henri Bacry and Aloysio Janner. It hosts a colloquium every two years. Th ...

Selected books

* with

Tetsuji Miwa Tetsuji Miwa (三輪哲二, ''Miwa Tetsuji''; born 10 February 1949 in Tokyo) is a Japanese mathematician, specializing in mathematical physics. Miwa received his undergraduate degree in 1971 and his master's degree in 1973 from the University o ...

, Etsurō Date: ''Solitons – differential equations, symmetries and infinite dimensional algebras''.

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing hou ...

2000, * with Tetsuji Miwa: ''Algebraic analysis of solvable lattice models''.

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, ...

1993, * Editor: ''Yang-Baxter Equation in integrable systems''.

World Scientific World Scientific Publishing is an academic publisher of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals headquartered in Singapore. The company was founded in 1981. It publishes about 600 books annually, along with 135 journals in various f ...

1990,

References

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