Michio Kuga
| Michio Kuga | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1928 |
| Died | 13 February 1990 |
| Nationality |
 Japan |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| Doctoral advisor | Shokichi Iyanaga |
| Doctoral students |
Bruce Dodson Stephen S. Kudla |
Michio Kuga (道郎 久賀 1928 - 13 February 1990) was a mathematician who received his Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in 1960.[1] His work helped lead to a proof of the Ramanujan conjecture which partly follows from the proof of the Weil conjectures by Deligne (1974).
In 1966, he introduced Kuga fiber varieties.[2]
One of his books, Galois' Dream: Group Theory and Differential Equations, is a series of lectures on group theory and differential equations for undergraduate students, considering such topics as covering spaces and Fuchsian differential equations from the point of view of Galois theory, though it does not treat classical Galois theory of polynomials and fields in depth.
References
- Deligne, Pierre (1974), "La conjecture de Weil. I.", Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, 43: 273–307, doi:10.1007/BF02684373, ISSN 1618-1913, MR 0340258
Notes
- ↑ Michio Kuga on the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Kuga Fiber varieties over a symmetric space whose fibers are abelian varieties, Algebraic Groups and Discontinuous Subgroups (Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., Boulder, Colorado, 1965), American Mathematical Society, 1966, S. 338–346
Bibliography
Kuga, Michio. Galois' Dream: Group Theory and Differential Equations. translated by Susan Addington and Motohico Mulase, ISBN 978-0-8176-3688-3