was a Japanese

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who worked in

number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Mat ...

and

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. In 1942 he became a professor at the newly founded Nagoya Imperial University, where he stayed for over twenty years. He is responsible for much of the effort in setting up its Department of Mathematics. He was married to the renowned number theorist

Teiji Takagi Teiji Takagi (高木貞治 ''Takagi Teiji'', April 21, 1875 – February 28, 1960) was a Japanese mathematician, best known for proving the Takagi existence theorem in class field theory. The Blancmange curve, the graph of a nowhere-differentiabl ...

's daughter Yakeo. The couple had three sons, all of whom became mathematicians, including S.-Y. Kuroda, who was a professor of

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. He published a text on Foundations of Number Theory with

Tomio Kubota (6 December 1930 – 30 June 2020) was a Japanese mathematician working in number theory. His contributions include works on p-adic L functions and real-analytic automorphic forms. His work on p-adic L-functions, later recognised as an aspect ...

in 1963.

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Sigekatu Kuroda / Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson Last Update July 2011 / School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland
20th-century Japanese mathematicians University of Tokyo alumni Academic staff of Ochanomizu University Academic staff of Nagoya University University of Maryland, College Park faculty Japanese emigrants to the United States 1905 births 1972 deaths People from Tokyo {{japan-mathematician-stub