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Sigekatu Kuroda

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Sigekatu Kuroda (黒田 成勝, Kuroda Shigekatsu, 11 November 1905 – 3 November 1972) was a Japanese mathematician who worked in number theory and mathematical logic.[1]

Sigekatu Kuroda
Born11 November 1905
Tokyo, Japan
Died3 November 1972
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Nationality Japan
Alma materTokyo Imperial University (Ph.D., 1945)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsTokyo Women's Normal School
Nagoya University (1942–1963)
University of Maryland (1962–1972)
Doctoral advisorTeiji Takagi

In 1942 he became a professor at the newly founded Nagoya Imperial University, where he stayed for over twenty years. He was responsible for much of the effort in setting up its Department of Mathematics.[2]

He was married to the renowned number theorist Teiji Takagi's daughter Yakeo. The couple had three sons, all of whom became mathematicians, including S.-Y. Kuroda, who was a professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.[3]

He published a text on the foundations of algebraic number theory with Tomio Kubota in 1963.

References

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  1. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Sigekatu Kuroda", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  2. ^ H. W. Leopoldt (1975). "Obituary : Sigekatu Kuroda (November 11, 1905–November 3, 1972)" (PDF). J. Number Theory. 7: 1–4. doi:10.1016/0022-314X(75)90002-5.
  3. ^ "Obituary for S.-Y. Kuroda, UCSD Linguistics Department".
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