Nobuo Yoneda

Nobuo Yoneda ( Japanese 米 田 信 夫 , Yoneda Nobuo ; born March 28, 1930 , † April 22, 1996 ) was a Japanese mathematician and computer scientist .

Life

After Yoneda graduated from the Mathematics Institute of the Faculty of Science at Tokyo University in 1952 , he was appointed assistant professor there.

From 1956 to 1959 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey) and also undertook research trips to Great Britain and France . In 1962 he became a lecturer at Gakushūin University and was promoted to professor there in 1966.

After founding the Institute for Computer Science in 1971 at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Tokyo, he became Professor of Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science there the following year . After his retirement in 1990, he moved to Tōkyō Denki Daigaku University and taught there until March 1996.

Scientific work

Yoneda had two scientific sides. As a mathematician, he has worked on category theory and homological algebra . The Yoneda lemma and the concept of Yoneda embedding go back to him. As a computer scientist, he played an essential role in the design and implementation of the Algol N programming language , which was a successor to Algol 60 . Yoneda was a member of the International Federation for Information Processing and co-editor of Science of Computer Programming and Acta Informatica .

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• Eiiti Wada, Akinori Yonezawa: Professor Nobuo Yoneda (March 28, 1930– April 22, 1996) . Science of Computer Programming, Volume 27 (3), November 1996.