Kawai Jittaro

Kawai Jittaro ( Japanese 河 合 十 太郎 ; * 1865 ; † 1945 ) was a Japanese mathematician and founder of the mathematical school at the University of Kyoto .

Kawai was a student of mathematicians Kikuchi Dairoku and Fujisawa Rikitarō in Tokyo from 1886 to 1889 . Then he was a math teacher at the third high school in Kyoto, where Takagi Teiji and Hayashi Tsuruichi were his students. He went to the Imperial University of Kyoto, founded in 1897, and received the title of professor there in 1903. His student Sono Masazō (1886-1969) specialized at Kawai's suggestion on algebra and returned to Kyoto after studying in Paris in 1920, where he also became a professor in 1921. Kawai was known more as a good teacher than for his research.

Maeda Fumitomo is one of his students .

literature

• Karen Parshall, Adrian Rice (Eds.), Mathematics unbound. The evolution of an international matheamtical research community 1880-1945, American Mathematical Society 2002, p. 243

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