Kiiti Morita, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kiiti Morita

Japanese mathematician

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1915

Place of Birth: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 04-Aug-1995

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, topologist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Kiiti Morita

  • Kiiti Morita (?? ??, Morita Kiichi, February 11, 1915 – August 4, 1995) was a Japanese mathematician working in algebra and topology. Born in Hamamatsu, he received his Ph.D.
  • from the University of Osaka in 1950 and was professor at the University of Tsukuba. He introduced the concepts now known as Morita equivalence and Morita duality which were given wide circulation in the 1960s by Hyman Bass in a series of lectures.
  • The Morita conjectures on normal topological spaces are also named after him.

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