- Kenkichi Iwasawa
Kenkichi Iwasawa (岩澤 健吉 "Iwasawa Kenkichi",
September 11 1917 –October 26 1998 ) was aJapan ese mathematician who is known for his influence onalgebraic number theory .Iwasawa was born in Shinshuku-mura, a town near
Kiryu , inGunma Prefecture . He attendedelementary school there, but later moved toTokyo to attendMusashi High School .From 1937 to 1940 Iwasawa studied as an
undergraduate atTokyo University , after which he enteredgraduate school at Tokyo University and became an assistant in the Department of Mathematics. In 1945 he was awarded aDoctor of Science degree . However, this same year Iwasawa became sick withpleurisy , and was unable to return to his position at the university until April 1947. From 1949 to 1955 he worked as Assistant Professor at Tokyo University.In 1950, Iwasawa was invited to
Cambridge, Massachusetts to give a lecture at theInternational Congress of Mathematicians . He spent the next two years atInstitute for Advanced Study atPrinceton University , and in Spring of 1952 was offered a job at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology , where he worked until 1967.From 1967 until his retirement in 1986, Iwasawa served as Professor of Mathematics at Princeton. He returned to Tokyo with his wife in 1987.
Iwasawa is perhaps best known for introducing what is now called
Iwasawa theory , which developed from researches oncyclotomic field s from the later parts of the 1950s. Before that he worked onLie group s andLie algebra s, introducing the generalIwasawa decomposition .Among Iwasawa's most famous students are Robert Coleman,
Ralph Greenberg ,Gustave Solomon , andLarry Washington .Awards
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Asahi Prize (1959)
*Prize of the Japan Academy (1962)
*American Mathematical Society Cole Prize (1962)
*Fujiwara Prize (1979)List of Books available in English
*"Lectures on p-adic L-functions" / by Kenkichi Iwasawa (1972)
*"Local class field theory" / Kenkichi Iwasawa (1986)
*"Algebraic functions" / Kenkichi Iwasawa ; translated by Goro Kato (1993)
*"Kenkichi Iwasawa collected papers" / Kenkichi Iwasawa ; edited by Ichiro Satake "et al." (2001)External links
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