Sono Masazo

Sono Masazō ( Japanese 園 正 造 ; * January 1, 1886 in Kyoto ; † November 24, 1969 in Okazaki ) was a Japanese mathematician and founder of the mathematical school at Kyoto University.

Sono was a student of Kawai Jittaro at the University of Kyoto and after graduating in 1910 went to Europe from 1919, where he attended lectures at the Collège de France . In 1920 he returned and in 1921 became a professor in Kyoto. At the suggestion of Kawai, he specialized in algebra and was one of those who introduced modern abstract algebra to Japan.

One of his students, Akizuki Yasuo (1902-1984), continued the algebraic tradition in Kyoto and became a professor there in 1948 (he was also a close friend of Oka Kiyoshi ). The Algebra School in Kyoto later turned to algebraic geometry, and Fields Medal winners Hironaka Heisuke and Mori Shigefumi emerged from it.

In 1965 he wrote a two-volume treatise on the chronicle of Nihon Shoki . In 1968 Sono was honored as a person with special cultural merits .

literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 園 正 造 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 / ブ リ タ ニ カ 国際 大 百科 事 典 / 日本 大 百科全書 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved September 14, 2017 (Japanese). 

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