Nomizu Katsumi

Nomizu Katsumi ( Japanese 野 水 克己 ; * December 1, 1924 in Ōsaka ; † November 5, 2008 in Providence (Rhode Island) ) was a Japanese mathematician who studied differential geometry .

Nomizu studied at the University of Osaka with the degree in 1947. Then he was at the Sorbonne and at the University of Chicago with SS Chern , where he received his doctorate in 1953 ( Invariant affine connections on homogeneous spaces ). In 1955 he did his doctorate again at Nagoya University and then taught at the Catholic University in Osaka. From 1960 he was associate professor and from 1963 professor at Brown University . In 1963 he published with Shōshichi Kobayashi the first volume of their textbook Foundations of Differential Geometry , which became a standard work. He was one of the founders of the first US-Japanese seminar on differential geometry in Kyoto in 1965.

In 1991 he received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize and in 1997 the Wilhelm Blaschke Medal.

For the American Mathematical Society, he edited various volumes of translations from the Japanese Mathematical Society's "Sugaku" journal.

He was married and had four children.

Fonts

• Lie groups and differential geometry , Publ. Mathematical Society of Japan, Volume 2, 1956
• with Shoshichi Kobayashi: Foundations of Differential Geometry , 2 volumes, Wiley-Interscience, 1963, 1969 (reprint at Wiley Classics 1996)
• Fundamentals of Linear Algebra , McGraw Hill 1966
• with Takeshi Sasaki: Affine differential geometry: geometry of affine immersions , Cambridge University Press 2004

literature

• In memory of Katsumi Nomizu , Results in Mathematics, Volume 56, 2009, p. 1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Nomizu is the family name, Katsumi the first name.