ENGLISH

The map of my life

By Goro Shimura (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
2008
ISBN
0387797149, 9780387797144, 9780387797151
DOI
10.1007/978-0-387-79715-1
LCC
QA29.S428 A3 2008
Open Library ID
OL23574982M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
961 kB (983728 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
212\211
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
Algebraic Geometry; Algebra; Number Theory; Histor

Description

In this book, the author writes freely and often humorously about his life, beginning with his earliest childhood days. He describes his survival of American bombing raids when he was a teenager in Japan, his emergence as a researcher in a post-war university system that was seriously deficient, and his life as a mature mathematician in Princeton and in the international academic community. Every page of this memoir contains personal observations and striking stories. Such luminaries as Chevalley, Oppenheimer, Siegel, and Weil figure prominently in its anecdotes. Goro Shimura is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University. In 1996, he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society. He is the author of Elementary Dirichlet Series and Modular Forms (Springer 2007), Arithmeticity in the Theory of Automorphic Forms (AMS 2000), and Introduction to the Arithmetic Theory of Automorphic Functions (Princeton University Press 1971).

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