- Kazuya Kato
Nihongo|Kato Kazuya|加藤 和也|Katō Kazuya|born on January 17, 1952 is a Japanese mathematician. He grew up in the prefecture of
Wakayama inJapan and is currently a professor atKyoto University . He attended college at theUniversity of Tokyo , from which he also obtained his master's degree in 1975, and his PhD in 1980.He is one of the greatest living number theorists.He contributed to many parts of modern number theory and related parts of algebraic geometry,sometimes reshaping them via his influential works.His first work was in the higher-dimensional generalisations of
local class field theory , and its globalisation. He contributed to higher ramification theory, p-adic Hodge theory, logarithmic geometry (he was one of its creators together with Fontaine and Illusie), comparison conjectures, special values ofzeta functions includingtheBloch-Kato conjecture onTamagawa number s,Iwasawa theory ,Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture and many others.He has established one of the most successful and powerful schools in number theory.Fact|date=June 2008
He is a renowned speaker with a unique style.
Famous facts
* He hears the prime numbers sing. Its text is available from http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/documenta/vol-kato/02prime.dm.pdf
* He invented a prime number dance
* His advisor is Ihara
* He is the advisor of Takeshi Saito, Masato Kurihara, and more than 20 other Japanese mathematicians
* He discovered the only known prime number that can be written down (in words) using no vowels
* He has a twenty-digit prime number tattooed on his left buttockBiography
* 1975 - BA from Tokyo University
* 1977 - MA from Tokyo U. Becomes teaching assistant.
* 1980 - PhD from Tokyo U.
* 1982 - becomes lecturer at Tokyo U.
* 1984 - assistant prof at Tokyo U.
* 1988 - awarded the spring medal of the Japanese Math Society for his work on higher dimensional H class field theory
* 1990 - full professor at Tokyo U
* 1992 - moves to Tokyo Institute of Technology
* 1995 - Inoue Award for his work on number theory connected with p-adics methods in algebraic manifolds
* 1997 - moves back to Tokyo U.
* 1998 - brief stint playing Barney the Dinosaur on PBS.
* 2001 - moves to Kyoto U.
* 2002 - Asahi newspaper award for his work on number theory
* 2005 - Japan Gakushiin Award for his work on number theory and arithmetic geometry.
* 2008 - Moves to the University of Chicago.Books
He wrote a book on
Fermat's last theorem and is also the author of the two volumes of the famous trilogy on Number Theory, of which the first has been translated into English and is entitled "Fermat's Dream"
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