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Place of Birth: Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
About Heisuke Hironaka
- Heisuke Hironaka (?? ??, Hironaka Heisuke, born April 9, 1931) is a Japanese mathematician.
- He entered Kyoto University in 1949.
- After completing his undergraduate studies at Kyoto University, he received his Ph.D.
- in 1960 from Harvard while under the direction of Oscar Zariski.
- He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970.He is celebrated for proving in 1964 that singularities of algebraic varieties admit resolutions in characteristic zero.
- This means that any algebraic variety can be replaced by (more precisely is birationally equivalent to) a similar variety which has no singularities.
- He also introduced Hironaka's example showing that a deformation of Kähler manifolds need not be Kähler.
- In 2017 he posted to his personal webpage a manuscript that claims to prove the existence of a resolution of singularities in positive characteristic.Hironaka was for many years a Professor of mathematics at Harvard University (1968-1992) but lives in Japan.
- He held teaching positions at Brandeis University (1960-1963), Columbia University (1964) and Kyoto University (1975-1988).
- He was a president of Yamaguchi University (1996-2002).
- He has been active in raising funds for causes such as mathematical education.
- His daughter, Eriko Hironaka, is also a mathematician and focuses on low-dimensional topology and geometric topology.
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