Shigeru Iitaka
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Shigeru Iitaka (飯高 茂 Iitaka Shigeru, born May 29, 1942, Chiba) is a Japanese mathematician at Gakushuin University working in algebraic geometry who introduced the Kodaira dimension 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 under Kunihiko Kodaira with thesis「代数多様体のD-次元について」(On D-dimensions of algebraic varieties).[1] He was awarded the of the Mathematical Society of Japan in 1980 and the Japan Academy Prize in 1990.
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