Takeo Wada

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Takeo Wada ( Japanese 和田 …, Wada [Takeo] ; * 1882 ; †  1944 ) was a Japanese mathematician .

Wada graduated from Kyoto University and became an assistant professor in 1908. From 1917 to 1920 he visited the USA, France and Germany. On his return he was promoted to professor. His main field of work was analysis, but he was also interested in topology.

A topological example, the lakes of the Wada , is named after him. It appeared in a work by Kunizo Yoneyama , but was attributed by this to Wada.

literature

  • Mamoru Mimura, The Japanese school of topology , in IM James, History of topology . North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1999, pp. 863-882, especially p. 865.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kunizō Yoneyama, Theory of Continuous Set of Points (not finished), Tohoku Mathematical Journal, First Series, Volume 12 (1917), pp. 43-158; in particular p. 60; on-line
personal data
SURNAME Wada, Takeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1882
DATE OF DEATH 1944