Shigeru Iitaka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Shigeru Iitaka

Japanese mathematician

Date of Birth: 29-May-1942

Place of Birth: Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Shigeru Iitaka (?? ? Iitaka Shigeru, born May 29, 1942, Chiba) is a Japanese mathematician at Gakushuin University working in algebraic geometry who introduced the Kodaira dimension and Iitaka dimension. He received in 1970 his Ph.D.
from the University of Tokyo under Kunihiko Kodaira with thesis???????D-???????(On D-dimensions of algebraic varieties).
He was awarded the Iyanaga Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan in 1980 and the Japan Academy Prize in 1990.