Shigeru Iitaka (飯高茂 Iitaka Shigeru, born May 29, 1942, Chiba) is a Japanese mathematician at

Gakushuin University is a private university in Mejiro, Toshima Ward, Tokyo. It was re-established after World War II as an affiliate of the Gakushūin School Corporation. The privatized successor to the original Gakushūin University (or "Peers School") was establ ...

working in algebraic geometry who introduced the

Kodaira dimension In algebraic geometry, the Kodaira dimension ''κ''(''X'') measures the size of the canonical model of a projective variety ''X''. Igor Shafarevich, in a seminar introduced an important numerical invariant of surfaces with the notation ''� ...

and Iitaka dimension. He was a worldly leader in the field of Algebraic geometry. He received in 1970 his Ph.D. 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 ...

under

Kunihiko Kodaira was a Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, and as the founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1954, being the first Japane ...

with thesis「代数多様体のD-次元について」(''On D-dimensions of algebraic varieties''). He was awarded the Iyanaga 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 1980 and the Japan Academy Prize in 1990.

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Living people 20th-century Japanese mathematicians 21st-century Japanese mathematicians Algebraic geometers 1942 births Gakushuin University faculty {{Japan-mathematician-stub